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What did Tavares put on his hot dog at Traverse City?
(definitely not innuendo)
Is this like a why did the chicken cross the road joke?
What did Tavares put on his hot dog at Traverse City?
(definitely not innuendo)
Is this like a why did the chicken cross the road joke?
Is this like a why did the chicken cross the road joke?
3. Have a star. This is the other way to get on national TV and be the focus of NHL marketing efforts. Eric Staal was close to this, if he had continued to punch out 100-point seasons, but he didn’t. No one on the current roster has that potential. It would take, say, a John Tavares trade to do it.
3. Have a star. This is the other way to get on national TV and be the focus of NHL marketing efforts. Eric Staal was close to this, if he had continued to punch out 100-point seasons, but he didn’t. No one on the current roster has that potential. It would take, say, a John Tavares trade to do it.
This take makes absolutely no sense to me.
Tavares: 54, 67, 81, 47, 66, 86, 70 66
His numbers aren't even close to staals prime numbers here.
Actually, when you look at overall league scoring and PPG numbers, Tavares does compare to Staal in terms of scoring.
Tavares entered the league in 2009. Ignoring the strike shortened lockout season (which was a bit of an anomaly, but both Staal and Tavares did well 53pts vs. 47pts), here are their numbers from 09/10 through 14/15 (before Staal really tailed off in his last season)
Staal: 389 GP, 331 PTS (0.85 PPG)
Tavares: 384 GP, 354 PTS (0.92 PPG)
If you just take their entire career up through 14/15 (again, ignoring the lockout shortened season), it's Staal with a slight advantage of 0.92 PPG vs. 0.91 PPG for Tavares. Then you take into account the NHL. In 05/06 the average goals / GP was 2.93. By the time Tavares entered the league, that had dropped to 2.66 (9% drop) and now it's 2.51 (a 14% drop).
I'm talking first 8 years in the league, not from when Tavares entered the league.
and even if you want to make the argument that his numbers are the same as Staal's, it still makes DeCock's take a stupid comparison.
and If we want to look at first 8 years we have to remove a year from staal because of tavares lock out short year, lets take the 100 point year because it's an anomaly like you said. Staal is at 474 and tavares is at 440. Add tavares lock out year and you're at 487. That's Staal at 474 without a year and tavares at 474 with half a year more.
No doubt Staal was more of an iron man than Tavares, I'm not denying that and it definitely comes into play when looking at total points. Just that your statement that "his numbers aren't even close to a prime staal" was a very misleading statement because 1) you weren't accounting for scoring rate, only totals (whicch is fine) and 2) more importantly, the NHL was a much higher scoring league in Staal's prime than today.
Eric Staal had his best years in the "we call interference" era of the NHL. He was basically playing with a juiced puck.
I'll take points over points per game.