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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
What is the deal with Tkachuk this year. I can't believe he's only on pace for about 60 points. He didn't look great last night but still generated a lot of opportunities and was involved in the offensive action. What's the reason for low production? Just bad luck? Not healthy?
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Some of it looked like bad luck to be honest.
He seemed to be around the play a lot, right in the "guts" of the game as Treliving called it.
It's what this team and probably 90% of the league misses, a guy who creates that havoc around the net, gets pucks on the goalies pads and creates chaos. Those passes or shots into the goalies pads on the powerplay created a lot of chaos.
A few times the puck sat in the blue paint.
The skating is still awful though, it looks like an injured player moving around a lot of the time.