I’m glad Tarasenko is having such success, but he would not have had this much success if he were in Seattle. Tarasenko is surrounded by players playing at, or near, a PPG average. He is helping them get their points, but let’s not act like he isn’t benefiting greatly from a deep offensive support system.
The teams that should be kicking themselves are teams that didn’t want his cap hit and could provide a similar system. It makes sense why they wouldn’t have paid for Tarasenko at the time, so it’s not like I’m laughing at their expense. But Seattle is one of the teams that in no way should feel like they missed out.