Confirmed with Link: Leafs sign Nick Robertson (1 year, $875k)

[Maple Leaf]

What is everyone's opinion as to why it's not working for him this year? Flaws aside, he always found a way to get a few looks. This year, not so much.

Why is that? Just snake bitten? New coach's system? Gripping the stick too tightly?

He not that good

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

What is everyone's opinion as to why it's not working for him this year? Flaws aside, he always found a way to get a few looks. This year, not so much.

Why is that? Just snake bitten? New coach's system? Gripping the stick too tightly?

He scored mostly off the rush in years past and the Leafs under Berube don’t create many rush chances at all. He still should have more than one goal but he’s ridiculously snakebitten.

 

[Stephen]

He scored mostly off the rush in years past and the Leafs under Berube don’t create many rush chances at all. He still should have more than one goal but he’s ridiculously snakebitten.

He was inches away from having a 2 goal night vs the Hockey Club. Give the team for being very publicly supportive of him.

 

[Tie Domi Esquire]

This guy stinks. Not that the Leafs handled the start of his career well, he's going to need a road paved in gold for a path to being an NHL contributor going forward. Chalk another surefire prospect in the "pipeline" as not being anything in real life. Remember, Dubas is a great drafter that's why he can waste assets on nothing in awful trades.

 

[LeafEgo]

Per the GM,

Winger Nick Robertson has one goal in 17 games this season, which makes you wonder where he fits long-term. But the Leafs GM sees positives in the 23-year-old’s game despite the offensive woes.

“You can say he’s struggling because there’s (no) production — the puck hasn’t gone in — but if his game was exactly the same as it was but a few more pucks had gone in, people would say Nick’s playing well. Nick has taken massive steps in his overall game — his checking game, his play away from the puck.

“What we’re talking to him about is, yeah, we want production, we want everybody to score, but make sure you’ve got a backup game so that if it’s not going in for a period of time, what else are you bringing? You still got to contribute. I’ve been impressed. He works like a dog.” (The Athletic)

I'm not saying he's safe, but if BT is impressed, it may be more than a 'window dressing' comment.

Fair enough but an overly positive take, you can say the same thing about most decent fringe nhl'ers. I doubt Berube loses sleep if he gets turfed.

On second thought, even with a bit of production there are still things about Robo that make you wonder. I think his ceiling now is an ok'ish third liner that brings modest production at times. Maybe not, but we're working on bigger things here.