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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
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Matthew went to a championship caliber roster and Johnny went to Columbus.
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100%. Everyone just looks at stats and makes their determinations off of that. Well, how did that work out for the Flames? James Neal was a 10 x 20 goal scorer, but looked like a total noob on skates here. Ditto for Huberdeau who set records prior to wearing the Flaming C.
Always have to delve deeper than just the numbers. Based on what we saw over their careers as Flames, Gaudreau and Tkachuk were very much drivers and I'd even give Johnny the slight nod. If he played on the same Florida Panthers team, there's no doubt in my mind Gaudreau would've been 100+ points too.
Pretty easy to score more points when your team is in the offensive zone 50%-60% of the time as opposed to Columbus where they were defending 50%-60% of the time. Scoring rates naturally would drop off considerably regardless of your linemates.