You will address me as "Your Magnificent Smugness", you horrible peasant you.
, he also gets a lot of top 6 opportunity and is propped up by those numbers. If he was on the 4th line where he belongs that's fine. But his ass isn't even a 30pt player without the top 6 time. At best he has put up 30pt paces while being in the top 6 for majority of his time.
That's ass.
If that's acceptable to you, then well **** son, that's a ****ty bar you've set.
Blueger is a 30pt pace player in the bottom 6. Without that propped up top 6 ****.
See my post to Big Kahuna; he's not in the top 6 for the majority of his time.
And do you know who else has points totals propped up by top 6 opportunities? Pretty much every bottom 6er in the NHL.
But lets break this down
In his 276 minutes outside the top 6, he has 6 5v5 points. That translates to a 1.3 p/60 pace, which over the course of a season would equate to a 20 point pace (22 points if we add on his SH pace as well). By way of comparison, Cullen's pace when actually on the 4th line in 2016-17 was 22 points. 22 points vs 22 points. This is a higher scoring season and ZAR's got some third line time mixed in there, but still basically comparable to Cullen.
In the 217 minutes he's played with Sid and Geno, he has 10 5v5 points. That translates to a 2.76 p/60 pace, which is higher than all but three Pens forwards this year (and just 0.04 behind Guentzel) and over the course of a season would equate to a 42 point pace. That's on 11.29 a night of 5v5 time btw. Now, admittedly, this is a higher scoring season so this isn't an entirely fair example, but last season he'd have had the second highest 5v5 total on the team with that pace, beating everyone who isn't Russian. And it'd have been tied 34th in the NHL with Nico Hischier.
So, this season... as a bottom 6er, his production is roughly equivalent to Cullen, and as a top 6er, his production is borderline elite.
You're right. So ass.