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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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Mike Sielski

Mike Sielski: Johnny Gaudreau is great. Can he save the Flyers? He’s not that great.

PHILADELPHIA — Here’s what it would take for the Flyers to sign Johnny Gaudreau.

It would take Gaudreau not being 5-foot-9 and 165 pounds and quick and shifty and as skilled as any forward in the National Hockey League. It would take him being 10 feet tall and bulletproof and capable of squeezing a diamond into dust in the palm of his hand.

It would take Gaudreau scoring more than the career-high 115 points he had last season for the Calgary Flames. It would take him scoring more than the 215 points that Wayne Gretzky scored in 1985-86, which is the NHL’s single-season record. It would take him scoring 315 points in a season. Then doing it again. And again.

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