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Quick Strikes: Everything is Happening

If you ask most hockey fans — both knowledgeable and those in it for the fun of the game — they’ll tell you, to a person, that Steven Stamkos is a shooter. A trigger-man. A sniper. A man who works on what makes him special 90% of the time.

Except now, LoserPoints is saying that Stamkos has become a playmaker, not a shooter. Huh. How ‘bout that. [Raw Charge]

The change in Stamkos’s scoring was abrupt. He’d never had more assists than goals in a season. To go from that to over double was quite a shift.