Micklebot
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12 goals in 48 games is not good production at all for prime Heatley. That’s 20 goals over 82 games, when his regular season production over that time frame was around 45 goals per 82 games. A 25 goal drop is rather large.
The thing about playoffs is teams try to take away specific threats more so than in the reg season. Sure, they took him away as the goal scorer, but he continued to produce at a point per game. His offense just shifted from goals to assists. the team used him as a decoy and continued to get the goals, just from a different person. That's the problem when people just look at goals and want to say he got shut down; well sort of, but in order to do that, the team opened up somewhere else and the effect is the same, and he was still a part of it.