ChaoticOrange
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More appropriately Puljujaarvi is stapled to Ryan Nugent-Hopkins who is nearly a Point-Per-Game player this season while Burakovsky is stapled to Brett Cojly and Lars Eller who have fewer points combined than RNH by himself. But I guess that doesn’t fit your narrative, huh? Face it Puljujarvi is being fed 2ND Line minutes he doesn’t deserve and is getting doubled up by a guy playing on the 3RD/4TH line of a significantly better team. The circumstances are different but one player is clearly WINNING and it’s not Puljujarvi.
You must have missed the part where Puljujarvi is getting 11 minutes a night. When he got a decent look last year (a whole 13 minutes!), he had 12 goals, 10 at even strength, matching at 19 what Burakovsky’s managed at 22 and 23 and he doesn’t have a Carlson to feed him pucks, either. That’s not 2nd line usage in the slightest. Puljujarvi’s most common linemate by a mile the last two seasons is Lucic. He’d kill for Lars Eller on a regular basis, buddy.