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Originally Posted by indes
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I'm a Duchene fanboy, so definitely bias, but I believe him to be much better than Turris. Pleasantly surprised with that analysis illustrating Duchene to be the better player by thescore
I know it's been reported they have extremely similar PPG over the last three years, but I think that doesn't tell the story. Duchene's been the highest scoring Avalanche over the last three seasons prior ahead of Landeskog, MacKinnon and Barrie before you see a major drop in players to the likes of Iginla, Tanguay and Blake ####ing Comeau. The Avalanche have been a dreadful bottom 5 offensive team averaged over those years. It wouldn't be a stretch if someone were to argue he was been the most valuable offensive player for the Avs over the last 3 seasons before this one.
Turris, on the other hand, has been playing on the middle of the pack offensively Ottawa Senators. While the forwards are of similar 'depth' and quality, with the likes of Stone and Hoffman scoring significantly more than Turris and even having Bobby Ryan with similar production. But the major difference will be having Karlsson on the backend (or at least starting there before becoming a fourth forward
) for Duchene. Duchene had shown to be a PPG when he has secondary scoring around him, I don't see why that won't be the case for him with the Senators.
