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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Not sure what you are looking at since you linked to the main page.
Huberdeau's expected goal differential 5on5 is minus 1.92. That is 15th on the team for all skaters. Awful.
Maybe you are including PP time. You can't look at expected goal differential without excluding special teams. Otherwise it favors PP time and penalizes players that kill penalties. I would certainly hope he is near the top of the team the way he has been given PP time.
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Huberdeau has always feasted on the powerplay. I think the year he scored 115 points, only McDavid and Draisaitl had a more skewed pp points to 5-on-5 points ratio among the league top scorers (Kaprizov and Stamkos were in there too, all were pretty close). People love to call out McDavid and Draisaitl for padding their point production through the powerplay, but Huberdeau is (or was) in that same class.
I mean hey, they all count. I don't care if certain players need to rely on the powerplay more to score. Scoring on the powerplay wins you games just like scoring 5-on-5. The problem is that the Flames powerplay smells like cheeks. Huberdeau was supposed to be the guy to get it going, but for whatever reason, he can't do it. I think Treliving misjudged him as being a play driver when he really isn't, and a lot of Florida fans could have told him that.