FLYguy3911
Sanheim Lover
- Oct 19, 2006
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I just can't picture Provorov flirting with 70 points no matter who he is on the ice with, but that is just my opinion. Sure there's more to being a great player than scoring, but it's hard to say Provorov is more skilled than Rielly and that makes up a large portion of player value.My intention wasn't to blast Reilly. Reilly is an exceptionally good player.
But for someone to say Provy will never be as good as him is just wrong IMO. How he played 2 years ago was top tier level. Not to mention that many goals and points without grade A pp time is even more impressive. There's no reason to believe he can't get back to that level and then beyond.
Provorov's goals year-by-year: 6, 17, 7. 82 games all 3 years. Primo usage every year.
What's the outlier? What he did two seasons ago without scoring on the PP (we have to make it clear that he got plenty of PP time, he just wasn't effective) was impress by itself. But what good are performances like that, if they aren't sustainable? If you're penciling him in to be a 17 goal scorer year-after-year, you're probably going to be disappointed.