Quoting: Billy739
if depends on if you understand basic english or not .
there's only 6 players with more goals in the last 3 years
Ovechkin
Kucherov
Mcdavid
Tavares
Mathews
That's it , that's all
you gotta be pretty oblivious to not understand what a Consistent Goal Scorer
before you argue like its possible to score 82 goals a year in todays NHL you should realize
Ovechkin who's the leagues best has 23 goals more then Laine over 3 years for 7.6 goals per year more on average
the 2 players after Laine are Brad Marchand and Sydney Crosby who have 1-2 goals less over 3 years then Laine
Laine's a consistent Goal Scorer , no one with any hockey knowledge would challenge that .
Laine's Attitude,Playmaking vision and ability to be anything more then a 1 dimensional goal scorer is what people generally criticize Laine for .
Laine's got his issues but scoring goals isnt one of them as the Only regular 50 goal scorer is Ovechkin and that wont change
Does that mean Laine at 21 wont grow into a more complete player over time ? not at all it just means today this is what we know about how he measures up versus todays top goal scorers .
bruh. google the word consistent. Im not arguing that Laine cant score. Obvoiusly he can. Im saying that he doesnt score consistently...
Consistent
1. acting or done in the same way over time, especially so as to be fair or accurate.
2. unchanging in nature, standard, or effect over time
synonyms: constant, regular, even, uniform, orderly, unchanging, unvarying, unswerving, undeviating, unwavering, unfluctuating
now lets look at Laine's goal scoring last season:
October: 3 goals
November: 18 goals
December: 3 goals
January: 1 goal
February: 4 goals
March: 1 goal
April: 0 goals
Do you want me to make you a graph too? or can you read how inconsistent that is? He also had goalless streaks of: 15 games, 12 games, 6 games (3 times over), 5 games (2 times over), and 3 games (2 times over).
Im not denying that Laine can score, but if you cant see that he is inconsistent then i dont know what to tell you.
EDIT: the graph didnt load into the comment but heres the link
https://imgur.com/gallery/de0FXax