Sky04
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ES Ghostkos had more ES points than Cirelli. More than whoever goes into 2RW.
Paul certainly benefited from PP production for his projected clip of what's average for a 3M player, but he's just as good offensively at half Cirelli's cost.
Our top line isn't an issue. Nobody is arguing that so you're strawmanning his take. The glaring issue is a lack of a second scoring line. Hagel is great, no complaints. It's Cirelli who is average and a lack of a true RW on the 2nd line. There's a lot of hope that Atkinson, Eyssimont, Chaffee, Sheary, Geekie, or Groshev somehow fill the gap and produce.
You made a sarcastic post but nobody is disagreeing with 4/6 of our top 6. It's the 6M 40pt center and roll of the dice RW. That's a problem.
It's still an elite top-6 you guys are just crying because of what? It's not top-3? 5? This whole whining thing makes it look like we have massive holes in our top-6. I'm not straw manning anything, you guys are overly complaining about an issue that JBB already improved significantly this off-season.
Stamkos played LW, so Hagel is an instant upgrade. Cirelli has more or less been in the top-6 for a while now, him being there again isn't an up or downgrade, the only wildcard is how Atkinson or whoever compares to Paul as he played that spot the most last year, again as you pointed out is mostly inflated by PP scoring anyways, and he sucks ass defensively.
Stamkos-Paul was by far the worst duo defensively last season - it's actually funny how much people think Hagel-Cirelli is somehow going to be worst than those guys.
So lets summarize, we upgrade both LW spots from last season with Guentzel to the top line and bumping Hagel down, replace the 2 worst defensive players in the top-6 with 2 of the best defensively as a pair and we are crying because we don't know how big a difference between Paul and his replacement is? If that guys scores half of what Paul does and doesn't float half as much as Paul we're good. Top-6 is poised to be scoring more at ES and getting scored on less.