Maybe we're not watching the same player. He would be tied for the lead or leading 12 NHL teams in goals this season.
Is he not doing it naturally enough?
this is him beating an unscreend perennial Vezina candidate and 2x Stanley Cup champ clean from the top of the circles
Flames have not had an outside shooting threat like that in their forward ranks since Mike Cammalleri left
I'm sorry but expected goals is such a trash twitter stat. Pretty sure I remember Jesse Puljujarvi leading the entire league in xG/60 one year and that poor boy couldn't score in a monkey whorehouse with a fistful of bananas.
Until they have data on where the other players are on the ice and who is doing the shooting it's not worth nearly as much stock as people seem to want to put into it. A corsi event at the side of the net of a 4th liner pumping it into a set goalie's pads is worth 3x more than an Ovechkin one time rocket from outside the dot. Because math said so
Sure. Gauge the trade value. But I don't see the rush to trade a guy in his mid 20s who's just had a break out year on your team, a team that as you pointed out desperately needs offensive talent.