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Originally Posted by dissentowner
20 minutes a night for a playmaker to try and do his thing in a system that preaches low danger point shots with no traffic. If by some miracle we had acquired Nathan MacKinnon two years ago you would be bitching he was a bad player and fell off a cliff because he would have about 5 points right now and probably 55 last season. You can't expect a skilled West-East playmaker to have any success in a perimeter shooting low danger system.
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I mean, Gaudreau managed 115 points as an east west player in the same system.
I'm open to the idea that Huberdeau just completely lost his confidence, and with that his ability to make an unimpeded 10 foot pass, but it's also pretty likely that at his age he's just fallen off a cliff. Happens to a lot of guys, particularly ones that aren't great skaters to begin with.