Oversimplification batman.
Or maybe Radulov is just bringing something that Gally doesn't (retrieval + playmaking skills). It's not always about being a catalyst; sometimes it's about pieces of a puzzle that fit well together. Radulov is a pretty tepid catalyst for Maxpac; Max doesn't need him as much as he has some retrieval skills of his own.
Chucky is a shooter. He either needs Radulov, Scherbak or Hudon on his wing (playmaking wingers), duh? (See the problem? we have one playmaking winger on the whole team.)
Turns out, the problem with Lekhonen, Byron, Ghetto, DD, Gallagher, is not that they are small: they are all shooters or weak NHL playmakers.
Turns out, Plekanec, Danault, McCarron, Mitchell, are not even good playmakers from the center, or it would be easy to use Chucky on the wing. They use him at center at this point, because he can create a bit more on his own there.
If there is one skill, this team is mediocre in its playmaking. Radulov wouldn't be such a difference maker without the scarcity in playmaking. Markov might not be used as much without the scarcity in playmaking.
They have to stop blaming the shooter, and Bergevin has to find someone to feed him. It's on him 100%. Trade him away to a team with playmakers and you'll get a 40 goals scorers explode after the trade as long as there is a good playmaker to feed him. For all these reasons, the guy to get isn't Duchene, it's Drouin! who would feed Chucky. It's that, or call up Hudon already and play him with Chucky.
