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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Kadri had one season where he produced at that level, in a contract season no less. Given his age at the time of the contract, this was entirely foreseeable. We all just hoped it wouldn't go this sour this quickly, but that seems to have been a fools hope.
Huberdeau's collapse...yeah, that's system and coach related. The thing that baffles me is we knew that Huberdeau couldn't produce in last year's system - and then we fired that head coach only to replace that head coach with a guy who coaches the exact same way. That's just bizarre to me.
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Kadri is not being paid like a 100 point player who scored playoff hat tricks and cup final OT winners though. His decline seemed priced in as far as UFAs go. Especially for the first few season which is par for the course on UFAs.
60 point center, good D, hard nosed, good in the playoffs...is a 7M player easy especially as a UFA with Calgary tax
again there is no way it should be going this bad and everyone that leaves (except Gaudreau) is either as good or better. Like do you have any doubts that if Kadri or Huberdeau went somewhere at 50% retained we would have a very different thread being bumped often as they rack up the points.
I refuse to believe they both dropped this drastically over a few months, its pretty hard to put up points on a team that nobody can score. Its just not the right mix or something...these guys are players. If Kadri when to Montreal and Monahan came back I bet their stats would swap.