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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Eh, this is kind of misleading. Where they sit in league scoring isn’t the full picture. Palmieri and O Reilly are a few months younger than Kadri and have similar P/GP with just a few less games played. Johansson is the same age and has 2 less points.
Kane has 18 in 19. Zuccarello and Benn are both around a P/GP (10/13 and 8/10 respectively).
So some guys have been limited by injury, but Palmieri, O Reilly, Johansson, and Zuccarello are all right there in terms of production/performance.
And then you have a whole bunch of players, like Backlund, who are performing at a level that may not be as high as those guys, but is still in line with their career averages and what you’d expect.
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What's misleading? This was never about Kadri. He just happens to fall into the group of older producing players.
None of those guys are late 30's or early 40's which is what the post said
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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
I think the fuss over guys in their early to mid 30s is starting to get overblown. Yes they are not mid 20s BUT I think the trend of guys who are going to go into very late 30s and early 40s will be the norm if they have been good players in the past.
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The fact that its hard to find guys mid 30's who are 60 point guys shows that expecting late 30 and early 40 year old guys to contribute in the league going forward is crazy unless they are Crosby and Ovechkin.