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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

It's funny because you seem to slam him for his year last year being shooting percentage driven, but then don't acknowledge that this year is actually a much bigger career outlier when it comes to both individual and on-ice shooting percentage.

20/21: 14.0% iSH%, 47.0% xGF, 45.9% GF, 10.8% On Ice
21/22: 14.3% iSH%, 52.9% xGF, 44.3% GF, 10.8% On Ice
22/23: 9.9% iSH%, 52.4% xGF, 45.6% GF, 8.9% On Ice
23/24: 17.3% iSH%, 48.6% xGF, 39.0% GF, 10.7% On Ice

24/25: 8.5% iSH%, 51.7% xGF, 42.1% GF, 6.2% On Ice

The biggest outliers on this page are his individual and on-ice shooting percentage this season.

I'd agree with you more if they went and gave him $6.5M+ but $5.75M x 5 for a guy that has the skill to score 30 on his good seasons is still not a terrible contract and seemed like pretty fair value at the time.

I also think he's playing through some nagging injury the team hasn't disclosed. Because it is weird that they haven't used him much on the PK this year even with the team struggling on the PK. He's averaged 58 second per game on the PK this year, and has the best xGA per 60 of all forwards that have PKed for at least 30 minutes this year.

Last year (especially after the Lindholm trade) he was playing over 1:30 per game on the PK and had the best xGA per 60 on the team and led the team in shorthanded points with 7.

So not sure why they haven't used him more on the PK this year (they need to use Pelletier there more too, he was an elite PKer for the Wranglers)

The guy is due.

Any drive bys on Sharangovich won't age well when he finishes the season with 20 goals.