Djp
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6 games behind or 6 points behind Detroit. The game is hockey not baseball.
DET 41-30-11
BUF 35-36-11
BUF turns 6 loses into 2 pt wins they tie Detroit. That isn't that hard to comprehend.
Nash is one of the power risk players out there. He's been pretty healthy through his career, and he's so good all-around, even when he doesn't score, he's useful.
Gaborik was a very high risk guy because of career-long injuries and the fact that he was useless any game he didn't score. He was going through a worse year than Nash.
Yet, because of a history of scoring 30-40 goals, Gaborik brought back a young second liner, a young fourth liner and a young third pair defenseman.
Nash will bring back more.
So you are saying because a players has always scored 30-40 goals he will continue to score 30 goals throughout his career?
BTW prorating last year to 80g--Nash scores just 20.
The guy got injured and missed 6 weeks. Does anyone really think he will only score 10 goals? Not taking his injury into account and dismissing him as washed up is simply absurd and unintelligible.
He had a concussion and missed significant time 3 seasons ago and came back to score 42 goals. Since that is factual, it might be prudent to give him the benefit of the doubt to expect that he will have a pretty decent season.
I think the likelihood of him scoring 35 goals is the same as him scoring 10 goals.
We have seen players drop in production like Vanek and Staal who are around the same age.
History shows players around this age range can fall off a cliff. If he was 25 would I say that--no. He isn't 25 so there is question of what kind of player he will be---one who scores 30-35 or one that scored 15-20 ??? Big difference in value.