And Brown had 18 goals and 11 assists, partially because Kopitar was feeding the everliving **** out of him and Williams. Those two combined had 29 goals, and Kopitar's 32 assists were 10 more than anyone else...seriously, Kopitar scores 42 points, and the next several guys have 33, 33, 32, 29, 25. He outscores the team by 10 or more with great regularity and it shouldn't matter if he's the one finishing the play.
Wanting him to be greedy and shoot more because he's a phenomenal player is a take on it I can stomach. Criticizing him for not scoring more is one I can't, because it suggests he's not the guy actually driving the play up the entire ice and setting up the eventual goal scorer. Are we really pretending Gaborik was scoring in spite of Kopitar and not because of him? Gaborik got loose by driving the net hard while Kopitar was wearing Hossa, Toews, and Keith sweaters in one series and McDonagh/Stepan/B. Richards jerseys in another. They saw him scoring at the Malkin Conn Smythe pace through two series and decided to let someone else beat them, hence the 70s line was born since the Hawks though shutting down kopitar would allow Kane/Saad/Sharp and co to run over everyone else.
I even am ok with
@BigKing s criticism that we needed more goals from him down the stretch in 2015 because
no one was scoring. But if literally everyone else is scoring and it's in large part because of his playmaking, I don't give a crap if he has 0 goals and 90 assists, we know where the offense is coming from, and
I find a lot of this conversation about point splits between goals, primary assists, secondary assists intentionally disingenuous.
