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Originally Posted by CGY12
Really? From averaging 56 points his first 5 seasons, career high 77, to a season with 104 points (in a contract year), I should have easily seen he was a play driving superstar? Despite his post season struggles? lol
My personal opinion, is you pay players who are unique and play drivers in crunch time, premium dollar, 9/10/11 + million dollars, if they have the ability to be the best player on a championship contending team, pay him. Is that Thachuk? his team right now is battling for the last seed in the east.
Like I said, I don't hate Tkachuk, he's having a great season. If they make the playoffs, good for them. In my world (which is irrelevant), I'm not paying Mathew that type of money when you consider his crunch time performance.
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That’s just such a short sighted view. The playoffs are a small sample size. You would really base your entire opinion on a player off 25 games during the playoffs vs 500 in the regular season? You would throw out a 23 year old because you didn’t like their two weeks of play in May?
It’s even more insane when you consider Tkachuk was playing the majority of the playoffs with a hand injury.
You would never sign anybody if that was the case.
And yes, like I said earlier it’s not even about his point totals. If you look past the stat sheet you can see he has gotten better every single season in not only quality chance generation, but also in defensive play. On a value basis he is in the conversation for top 5 players in the league.