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You forgot to add 50+... its a possibility.
I'm really confused for why so many people are voting so low on Galchenyuk. Have people looked at his career numbers before? Just to throw it out there:
1. Galchenyuk has a career average of 33 ES points per 82 games.
2. Galchenyuk has a best ES season of 40 ES points, and ES scoring is up over 13% from that season.
3. Galchenyuk has never played with a linemate on par with Crosby or Malkin.
4. Galchenyuk has never played on a team as offensively talented as the Penguins.
Outside of being overly jaded, I don't see a rationale for assuming that he's going to score so little at ES. As far as I can tell, the worst case scenario for him is 35 ES points and 50 total points, assuming he plays a full season. The only way he gets lower than that is if he's injured or the Penguins as a team fall off a cliff offensively. For Galchenyuk to only hit 20-30 ES points while healthy, the Penguins would have to be one of the worst offensive teams in hockey like the 18-19 Coyotes and the 17-18 Habs.
I'm really confused for why so many people are voting so low on Galchenyuk. Have people looked at his career numbers before? Just to throw it out there:
1. Galchenyuk has a career average of 33 ES points per 82 games.
2. Galchenyuk has a best ES season of 40 ES points, and ES scoring is up over 13% from that season.
3. Galchenyuk has never played with a linemate on par with Crosby or Malkin.
4. Galchenyuk has never played on a team as offensively talented as the Penguins.
Outside of being overly jaded, I don't see a rationale for assuming that he's going to score so little at ES. As far as I can tell, the worst case scenario for him is 35 ES points and 50 total points, assuming he plays a full season. The only way he gets lower than that is if he's injured or the Penguins as a team fall off a cliff offensively. For Galchenyuk to only hit 20-30 ES points while healthy, the Penguins would have to be one of the worst offensive teams in hockey like the 18-19 Coyotes and the 17-18 Habs.
I'm not too concerned about what his preferred position is. I prefer LD but I'm much better offensively on RD. Neal probably preferred LW but doubled his goal totals on RW. Galchenyuk has to concede that he doesn't have the face-off or defensive abilities to be C on anything remotely approaching a competitive team. He might have the best of both worlds here with Geno, where maybe they can share those duties a bit more since Geno
If he even manages to stick through the season, I'm thinking 21-25.
Not saying this is inevitable or likely, but at this point Penguins fans have to acknowledge that forwards who prefer center aren't necessarily going to concede anything. Sometimes they just fail.
Kinda stating the obvious, but that sort of points pace is pretty mutually incompatible with sticking the season.
He could get injured.
I think what is more than likely to happen is Galchenyuk has a solid 50-60 pt season and we lose him for nothing after a disappointing playoff run.
I said pace precisely because of injuries, but you're right that it could result in that sort of pace without him getting traded anyway. I don't want to say it will absolutely follow that low ES point pace will result in him getting traded - just that it's very likely and it would take a corner case for him to not be.
- his best seasons were primarily at center, his preferred position
- he's averaged 24 ES points per season the last 2 years
- Galchenyuk may spend some time in the bottom 6
- 31-35 point range is getting the most votes so far, which would represent a 15 point bump from last year
- you voted for 36-40, which would potentially represent only a 1 point difference from the most popular option
Difference being Galchenyuk just put up 40+ pts twice playing wing.
He just put up 27 and 20 ES points playing wing.