A couple of things if we are rounding of the season.
Zucc got 59 pts, missed a few games and started the year with what 8 without a point. The 30th scorer in the NHL got 65 pts.
Zucc is a scoring at a decent rate for a top scoring player if you look past the first 8 games. Please also note how diffrent we match our team compared to most other teams. We don't have 1-3 guys who get every important shift, and who everyone feed the puck to all the time. That is 10-20 pts a year, add 10-20 to anyone on this roster, and their stats are great/good.
Looking at Kreider-Step-Nash, that line did not put it together. At all. They never looked good. Step and Kreider didn't manage to open up for Nash. Nash and Kreider couldn't keep Step in the attacking zone. And so forth. It was not a good match. Kreider was only really consistent when he played with Zucc, all year. When you crap on peoples stats after playing almost a full year on a line like that, what did you expect, that someone would score 65-70 pts, ie like 15-30 in scorin among all forwards in the league, after playing almost a full year on a dysfunctional line? I've never seen that before...
Thirdly, most production comes from a good PP. For anyone. Our PP was better this year, but mostly diffrent units worked at diffrent times and not one forward found that stats boosting position. I think that will come more next year when we things are more figured out so to speak.
