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Didn't know where to put this but I took a look at MacK's gamelogs and it's crazy the way things line up with the duchene trade...and the rumoured knowledge that the trade was almost done in the locker-room a week or two prior to the trade actually happening.
Looking at MacK's pointless games he had 6 in 14 games pre trade...4 multi-point games, all coming in the 4 games preceding the trade; in that 10 day window that the players supposedly knew it was happening...1 pointless game in 2 they played in Sweden right after the trade, and only 3 in the 12 games they've played since getting back from Sweden (5 multi-point games). All of MacK's multi point games have come since the players supposedly found out and he's producing with much more regularity. It really seems like getting to really "be the man" for this team is jiving with MacK right now. If he keeps playing like this...even if the production cools off some...we've got a legit franchise player on our hands; not just a top line star.
Looking at MacK's pointless games he had 6 in 14 games pre trade...4 multi-point games, all coming in the 4 games preceding the trade; in that 10 day window that the players supposedly knew it was happening...1 pointless game in 2 they played in Sweden right after the trade, and only 3 in the 12 games they've played since getting back from Sweden (5 multi-point games). All of MacK's multi point games have come since the players supposedly found out and he's producing with much more regularity. It really seems like getting to really "be the man" for this team is jiving with MacK right now. If he keeps playing like this...even if the production cools off some...we've got a legit franchise player on our hands; not just a top line star.