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Expecting him to be able to put up 20-30 goals and 50-60 points is not "counting on career highs", it's a perfectly reasonable expectation for him. He has hit a pace of 45 or more points in all but 1 season (13-14), the absolute minimum expectation for him should be 30 ES points and 45 points overall. Him getting 10 points beyond that is a reasonable expectation, especially considering he has done it before on a worse team with worse linemates when scoring was lower.
You said 25-30 and 55-60. Considering his career highs are 30 goals and 56 points, yeah, you're pretty much expecting career highs. His pace is moot in this conversation because we're talking about the totals he's hit.
He's gotta be perfectly healthy AND embrace playing on the wing AND mesh well with Malkin AND see significant time on the #1PP for him to see these types of numbers. Could happen, but I'm not counting on everything settling so neatly.
...what? Are people forgetting who Galchenyuk is or something?
Galchenyuk is at worst a 2nd line forward who has put up top-6 numbers consistently over his career. I think people convinced themselves that he's somehow terrible to say the Kessel trade was worse than it actually is.
Nobody's forgetting who Galchenyuk is. He's a talented young player who's always produced his best at center and scored a significant amount of his points on the 1st PP unit.
He's not terrible, and I don't see anyone disputing that he's a top 6 player. But he's hardly a lock to hit career highs based on a number of variables.