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Originally Posted by Macho0978
The Flames are a scrappy team that struggled to score. Parekh and other young players can contribute to Huberdeau's future success.
Even if his goals slip, if healthy 70 points is not a massive increase for what he has done in Calgary and still well below what we expected when he came here.
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70 points is likely a large increase when he's averaged 56 points with Calagry and he's only getting older. he;'s likley a better bet to get back into the 50's that reaching 70.
And you assume he'll continue to get premium ices time and 1st PP time.
Hopefully some of our propsects will start to erode into that premium time. We better hope so or we'll be stuck in bubble land for eternity. I assume the hope is that some of our better prospects start taking over for our older players.
Let's say he does get 70 points next year. It's certainly not impossible, based on his efforts to date.
He's got 5 years left at over $50M owing. That's a lot to take on for an aging player with a buyout proof contract.