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Originally Posted by The Cobra
If a player needs a "perfect storm" to succeed, he really isn't a star, but just a complimentary player. A $10.5M complimentary player who put up star stats as a function of his prior system and line mates.
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Huberdeau was hitting 90 points per season even before he had the "perfect storm" in his last two years in Florida. We're talking about a player that averaged 92 points per 82 games in the six seasons prior to arriving in Calgary...
If anything, Huberdeau is proving that systems and coaching matter a lot. When you don't create the right conditions for players to succeed (e.g. Huberdeau needs to be surrounded by speed and chaos), they won't be effective how matter how skilled they are (e.g. Huberdeau's elite hockey sense and playmaking).