GoldenJet wrote:
he's traditionally fallen off after the all star break
The whole team does. The one good thing about the 2012 lockout was that the Blackhawks weren't able to peace out halfway through the season and just had no choice but to kick everyone's ass for 48 games.
In fairness to Toews, he missed the end of 2012 with a concussion from a Joe Thornton hit, so that's going to skew his post-ASG numbers a bit. But like I said, the team has a tendency to crawl in a hole and die every January. I don't know how much of that is his leadership, such as it is in this instance, but I know he's gone on the record saying he gets bored.
denisdman wrote:
The whole points thing is fine, but let's be honest, pure scores put the puck in the back of the net.
I disagree here as well. The nature of hockey is such that the real legwork of a goal is just as likely to go to the primary or secondary assistant as it is to the goal scorer. Dave Andreychuk has a shit-ton of goals, the all-time leader in power-play goals, I believe, but no one really gives a shit because he was seemingly just in the right place at the right time. That's why the Art Ross (most points) is the coveted trophy in the scoring race and the Rocket Richard (most goals) is just a nice afterthought.
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