Quoting: F50marco
If you don't want him, fine, but pointing out his number of 30 goal seasons is kind of moot. He's over a point per game since joining the Devils and had relatively decent stats in Edm in which without his injuries would have easily hit multiple 30+ goal seasons.....
He's elite as much as the next guy. Doesn't mean you have to want him. Doesn't mean you have to say he's not elite either.
I just don't think he is. He's a good player, not great. Health is a skill as well. Also, it's kind of contradictory to say you can't bring up him lack of 30 goal seasons and then say he is a PPG player.
Just looking at LW (in no particular order) : Marchand, Ovechkin, Panarin, Connor, Lee, Giroux, Forsberg, Landeskog, Huberdeau, Gaudreau, Tkachuk, and Maybe Laine & Pacioretty I would rather have.
That's 11 guys ahead of him on LW. There is also Guentzal, Benn, Zucker, Skinner that would all be in the conversation as well.