He needs 10 more in 18 games. It's going to be hard but he can do it.
He'll score 36.
Right now he's 5th in the league in goals per game amongst players with a reasonable amount of goals scored (not 2-3), which is crazy. How much credit should Desharnais get for this?
28 goals in 43 games since Nov 19th.
18 more games to go.
Give us 39 goals.
40 is within reach.
Let's see how it goes next game.
If they put Vanek with Plek then opponents needs to split their defense.
If they put Vanek with DD and Pacio more goals to that line...
and the best part is we have him for 4.5mill/year
Pacioretty's streak is probably the best streak the habs have had since Richer tore it down the stretch in the year he put up 50. I think he might even be hotter than Kovalev in 2009 when he was killing it at the end of the season. Weird to think in a full season at this pace he'd be at 45 for the year. Probably flirt with 50 had he not had a slow start.
It makes me wonder about next year. If we re-sign Vanek, could he get close to 50?