Player Discussion Evan Bouchard

[Canovin]

Sure, maybe both. But the OP said just Bouchard...so same logic should apply. One of McDavid or Drai.

Mackinnon is having a fantastic year, way better than Mcdavid.but Col hasn't been very good this year and just got into a playoff spot. Now imagine them without Makar. They'd be awful.

Most teams would still make the playoffs with either one of McDavid or Drai or Makar or Mackinnon added. Bouchard doesn't have that kind of game breaking affect on a team. He's good to have, not on their level. Not even close. The guys you mentioned, can get away with 10 subpar games in a season. Bouchard shows up maybe half of the season. Until he bring his compete level up, he's not there.

I would take another Ekholm over Bouchard but that's just me.

 

[McAsuno]

Then you let him walk because Bouchard isn't worth anything north of 8. He makes so many brain dead mistakes and athletically just doesn't have it. Put Bouchard on the bottom 20 teams in the league and he's probably making 4-5 million

Let a player like Bouchard walk and then the team will spend years again looking for a player of his caliber to replace him. That's just utter nonsense.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

This couldn't be more false. I was the one who recognized this last year and saw it coming. I was the one who when he was putting up "big numbers" was still criticizing his play while you guys shit all over me.

I've always said Bouchard makes good plays, but he makes WAAAAAY too many bad plays to be considered elite and make big $$$.

Pretty sure you, Jimmi and Tobias are the ones who have gone silent. The irony....

I haven’t gone quiet, it’s just a waste of my time talking to someone who only sees all the bad plays, and somehow his “eye” test is more important than all other eye tests and stats.

It’s the same as when people crying about Bouchard getting shots blocked.

Quinn Hughes and Cale makar get just as many shots blocked, this stuff is easy to look up.

 

[McAsuno]

I haven’t gone quiet, it’s just a waste of my time talking to someone who only sees all the bad plays, and somehow his “eye” test is more important than all other eye tests and stats.

It’s the same as when people crying about Bouchard getting shots blocked.

Quinn Hughes and Cale makar get just as many shots blocked, this stuff is easy to look up.

If not for Bouchard, the team would've been knocked out by Vancouver last year also. Bouchard has his gaffes for sure this season, but you'd think he's the antichrist on defense with the way posters like him yap.


But muh eye testttttt