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Kessel's a pretty darn good player, people underrate him on this board. You're probably talking about one of the best pure snipers in the game.
Hall/RNH/Eberle I'm not worried about. They already are producing up to their contracts and they are only going to get better as their contracts go on. The rest of this roster is where the problem is.
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The point is that our 3 highest paid players are all playing on the same line virtually all the time. huge toi, with huge PP minutes, good offensive D support, sometimes even 5 forward alignments, and they aren't really scoring that many goals. What people need to consider is how many goals scored a topline in Toronto bags vs our topline here. They are really failing in that regard. Not even producing the goals they should. This is before even looking at the GA allowed which is abject fail.
Fact of the matter is the 3 highest paid players on the team, put together in one basket, are currently getting beat for fun.. Yes, our problems do start from there if one is ever expecting a winning club that scores more goals than its opposition. I'd be happy at this point if the first line even learned to float.