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He's a centre, he's not supposed to get setup... he is the setup guy... based on those stats he's not creating his own chances at a high rate, but as I have definitely noticed this year, he's setting other people up for glorious chances that they aren't finishing.
Let's be honest, our top forward group is NOT upper echelon. Boeser and Debrusk would be L2/3 on a lot of top tier teams.
He's also playing with Kane primarily right now, and like the other night what did Kane have? 10 shots on net? So he's definitely not getting any shots with Kane on his line if Kane is just rifling it at the net everytime he's in the offensive zone. No coincidence that when Kane's point totals started going up (ie: he started scoring a bit finally) Petey's points also went up. Having Garland on that line is pretty good. I think Garland creates and finishes at a 50/50 rate.
Honestly they need another guy, like a Michkov, on that top line... I don't think at this point in his career that Kane is a 1st line dude anymore.
Likewise, Sherwood is having a fucking great season goals wise, but he has ZERO assists. 10G 0A. That's crazy. He's also almost a team worst -7 last time I looked, so he better be scoring because apparently his line is getting its shit kicked in 5 on 5.
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