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

[Stephen]

Robertson has 2 goals in 223 minutes at 5v5, while Marner has 3 goals in 334 minutes at 5v5. Both sit at 0.54 G/60.

One is hailed as our lord and savior by some; the other is a bubble player.

To be fair, 24 assists in 24 games would put you closer to saviour territory than bubble territory. Versus 0 assists.

 

[ACC1224]

To be fair, 24 assists in 24 games would put you closer to saviour territory than bubble territory. Versus 0 assists.

Understanding hockey is hard.

 

[Zybalto]

Robertson has 2 goals in 223 minutes at 5v5, while Marner has 3 goals in 334 minutes at 5v5. Both sit at 0.54 G/60.

One is hailed as our lord and savior by some; the other is a bubble player.

MacKinnon has 1 goal 5v5 this season in 433 minutes.

I'd say pull him from team Canada. What a scrub.

 

[Puckstuff]

MacKinnon has 1 goal 5v5 this season in 433 minutes.

I'd say pull him from team Canada. What a scrub.

For all of the flak that Robertson receives, he has 15 even strength goals in his last 77 games in limited minutes, without having a consistent line. He can play. He might not be a perfect player, but It's just a fact that he's a useful top 9 player, and he draws a lot of penalties as well. It's going to be very hard to replace that type of production for less then 1 million. So unless we can find a 20-30 goal guy for cheap, Robertson is a perfectly fine 3rd line wing IMO.

 

[fahad203]

For all of the flak that Robertson receives, he has 15 even strength goals in his last 77 games in limited minutes, without having a consistent line. He can play. He might not be a perfect player, but It's just a fact that he's a useful top 9 player, and he draws a lot of penalties as well. It's going to be very hard to replace that type of production for less then 1 million. So unless we can find a 20-30 goal guy for cheap, Robertson is a perfectly fine 3rd line wing IMO.

Not taking anythign away from his accomplishments. But Kasperi Kapanen too scored 20 goals and vast majority of those were even strength goals. He never scored anything near that again

Drawing penalties cannot be factored in, you can't count on that on game to game basis. That's not really a metric to have a player on your roaster

ALso, he's not a 20-30 goal scorer. He scored 15 goals last year but a lot of people score 15 goals a year. Morgan Geeke scored 17 goals last year. He's not considered or will ever be considered a 20-30 goal scorer..... He's on pace for 8

A lot of players scored that amount of goals last year.... Last year isn't this year.

Replacing a 15 goal scorer who is one dimensional isn't actually very hard. Fraser Minten at this point will get around 8-13 goals with about 15 assists.

We dont' actually have to look outside for replacement.

Trying not to hate the kid, he needs to start producing without being one dimensional