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Originally Posted by CGY12
I acknowledge its rare but I'm more prone to look at his trajectory and what that line looked like leading up to his 100 point season with the Flames and to me at the time (before the trade), I thought it was an anomaly. You couple that with his poor performance in the playoffs, and it was poor, not even good, I was ok with the team not giving him the 9+ million dollar salary he commanded.
For sure, he definitely has time to figure it out in playoff hockey and I wouldn't be shocked if he does. In my mind though you give 9/10/11 million dollar to players who can be the best player on a championship caliber team and I don't see that in Tkachuk.
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Tkachuk was 24. He averaged over 70 pts playing with Backlund who is a 40-50 pt player. It’s not a big surprise that he can put up 100 with better players.