Bonus Mailbag: Sam Gagner Is A Bust (so are Krejci, Bergeron, Toews, Sharp, McDonald & Getzlaf)

Zona

We get that you like Gagner but give it up. If the Oilers want to win the cup they must find another C who scores ppg and get rid of the bust. Can't win the cup without two ppg c and if he wasn't your favorite, you'd want to trade him too.

Since the lockout, six teams have won The Stanley Cup. Of the twelve top two centres to win the cup, five have them have scored at a point-per-game pace or better. Three of the teams to win the Cup didn't have even one point-per-game centre:

Year	Centre	G	P	P/G
2010	David Krejci	75	62	0.83
2010	Patrice Bergeron	80	57	0.71
2009	Jonathan Toews	76	68	0.89
2009	Patrick Sharp	82	66	0.80
2008	Evgeni Malkin	82	113	1.38
2008	Sidney Crosby	77	103	1.34
2007	Pavel Datsyuk	82	97	1.18
2007	Henrik Zetterberg	75	92	1.23
2006	Andy McDonald	82	78	0.95
2006	Ryan Getzlaf	82	58	0.71
2005	Eric Staal	82	100	1.22
2005	Rod Brind'Amour	78	70	0.90

Two teams had a pair of point-per-game centres and won the Cup. Five teams have had a pair of point-per-game centres and failed to win The Stanley Cup. 59 point-per-game centres have failed to win The Stanley Cup.

Sam Gagner won't have to score a point-per-game to win a Stanley Cup.