Yes I'm aware of what you already said. Doesn't make it any less wrong. Hahaha.
Yeah, and I'm aware of what you said. Even more wrong.
It's not that it's his career high pace, it's his MOST RECENT pace with 15 or more games played. How do you not see that as a better measuring stick than when he was 21 or 22, even though the "career year" was at age 24?
Because "with 15 or more games played" is completely arbitrary and you only selected it because it paints his numbers in the best light.
I could easily say the only numbers worth considering is his most recent season with 37 or more games played. Oops, that's his 23 year old season and we're back down to 0.33 ppg.
The logical selection is either some sort of average or his most recent production with the teammates he's likely to have next season.
The average is 0.29 ppg. The most recent season is 0.29 ppg. Everything except the 36 game sample you are choosing is way under 0.4 ppg. There is no reason that his year 24 season, which is now going on 2 years in the rearview mirror and is an outlier from his year 23 season and his year 25 season, should be the expectation.
And it doesn't change my position on him anyway because 0.4 ppg is still just 32 points in a season. So he's still not a 35-40 ppg player.
The fact that he improved at age 24 over 21, 22 or 23 is f***ing NORMAL.
But he didn't improve this year. He was worse this season despite higher usage than his previous year.
You just cant let this die. Hahaha.
Typing "hahahah" multiple times in every post isn't a substitute for logical discourse nor does it make you seem like you are right.
Edit: his ppg were .27 (in 11 games) at 21; .13 (32 games) at 22; .33 (40 games) at 23 and .42 (36 games) at 24. Do you see the trend there? If you don't you just don't want to. But again if you think we should move on because he's always hurt, that's a different story.
And it was 0.29 at 25 playing a middle six role. Do you not see that he's topped out? .40 ppg is his high water mark and a likely outlier.
Even if I take his totals over his last 3 seasons, it's 32 total points in 90 total games. That's his age 23, 24, and 25 seasons.
And it's 0.35 ppg.
Which is 28 points in a season.
He's not a 35-40 point player. For this kind of player, a low-end energy grinder, it's NOT REASONABLE to conclude that you will see scoring progression from 22 to 23 to 24 to 25 to 26 to 27. That's not what Blais is. He's not going to keep improving those scoring numbers. What you saw this year is all he will ever be offensively, and even on this team playing a second line role he's about a 4 points every 14 games player. Maybe if he gets hot a couple more over the course of a season. That's all he is.
I actually don't think we should automatically move on. If he's cheap enough I'd love him back.... on the fourth line.
If Drury is going to go off foolishly installing him into the second or third line over Kravtsov or something then we are better off not having him, but that's a different discussion. Setting aside the biases of the GM, Blais is a quality fourth liner to have. I'd love to see him with Goodrow on that fourth line too.
But as a third liner he's average and he's absolutely not a 40 point player. He may have a season where he approaches that like once in his career, but he will always regress back down because he doesn't have the talent to sustain a career as a consistent 35-40 point player.
