Last 50 games actually if we're just using the regular season.
2-9-11 in the last 60 including post-season.
Yeah, but now you're just using arbitrary cut-offs to try and prove a point. Add an extra game and he now has 6 points. Where does he stand among players with 43 regular season games, or 50 regular season games?
Arbitrary cut-offs aren't exactly a bad thing when you're looking at a large enough sample size. It's pretty obvious that the guy had fallen off of a cliff at the start of the 2017-2018 season, leeched a few points here and there due to favorable usage, and then fell even further off a cliff towards the end of last season and the start of this one.
Now, you're looking at a 42 game sample size where he is the worst offensive player in the NHL. He had a 2 point game in a blowout against Dallas where he was moved to the top line due to injury. Since then, over the course of 42 games, he has been the worst offensive player in the NHL.
If you want to pull things back further and look at a cut-off date that isn't cherry picked, let's just look at "since the start of 2018". Melker has played 65 games; among players who have played at least 65 games, his 11 points are 6th from last and 3rd from last among forwards. His 4 goals in that time frame are 16th from last and 3rd from last among forwards.
If you want to pull things back even further and look at the last calendar year (since 11/27/2017), Melker has played 77 games; among players who have played at least 77 games, his 15 points rank 10th from last and 6th from last among forwards. His 6 goals in that time frame are 32nd from last and 2nd from last among forwards.
If you want to take things back to the start of last season, Melker has played 95 games; among players who have played at least 95 games, his 21 points in that time frame rank 13th from last and 7th from last among forwards.
Last but not least, if you want to look at JUST THIS SEASON, Melker has played 24 games; among players who have played at least 24 games, his 1 goal ranks 2nd from last and his 2 points rank 3rd from last among all players.
So, for a TL;DR: While I am using a specific time frame that is most unflattering to Melker, it is also a large sample size which includes recent numbers. Any other cut-off points that one would use to pinpoint the beginning of his very steep decline - even a cut-off point that is intentionally flattering - would still be extremely unflattering in the grand scheme of things, and would still paint a picture of Melker Karlsson as one of the worst offensive players in the NHL. The reason that I compare him to players with at least as many games played as him is to show that there are few or no players in the NHL who produce as poorly as him and still get such a long leash WRT playing time and getting in the lineup.
What this information tells us is that there are very few head coaches who will absolutely refuse to healthy scratch a player whose production is as poor as Melker Karlsson. In fact, unlike Melker, who hasn't played 100% of the available games in this time frame due to injury, a lot of these other players (Ex. Ryan Reaves) that are near or below him on these lists have missed time due to being healthy scratched.
Given this information, we can reasonably conclude that we CAN NOT reasonably conclude that any replacement head coach would absolutely refuse to healthy scratch Melker Karlsson. Rather, a more reasonable conclusion is that most head coaches would healthy scratch a forward whose production is as putrid as Melker Karlsson; especially given that Melker Karlsson absolutely does not fight (he got punked by Nazem f***ing Kadri), while most putrid offensive forwards who stay in the lineup do so because they fight.
