Bouboumaster
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The Avs are top 5 in scoring in spite of having no 2C to speak of. Meanwhile, they have a goalie who's really struggling.
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I was repsonding to an Oilers fan
The Avs are top 5 in scoring in spite of having no 2C to speak of. Meanwhile, they have a goalie who's really struggling.
Great suggestion.
Hmmm...Exactly. Habs fans simply won't allow this obvious truth to enter their brains.
Their brains have a singular focus. Give us a 1st round pick.
Barrie (along with a 1st) was traded for Ekholm.
So a PMD will always have value especially when his contract is cheap.
Barrie was the most valuable piece in the Ekholm trade. Shafer was a 1st round pick technically but would have been a 2nd rounder pre Kraken days. Also a team trading a prospect could be a red flag the kid is not developing properly.I guess that's part of the point of some of the posts here. A playoff team, will value an Ekholm type player over an offensive, PMD with defensive warts all day. It was Barrie, a 1st, a 4th, Reid Schafer (former 1st round pick) for Ekholm and a 6th. Barrie was not netting a 1st round pick himself and I don't believe his value in this trade was equivalent to a 1st.
Now, I'm not comparing Barrie to Matheson, because I haven't watched Matheson enough. But your statement of a "60 point d-man even if he was the worst defensively" being worth a 1st+ is factually wrong since the Preds have been trying to trade Barrie for most of the year. If any team offered the Preds a 1st, he would be long gone by now.
Barrie was the most valuable piece in the Ekholm trade. Shafer was a 1st round pick technically but would have been a 2nd rounder pre Kraken days. Also a team trading a prospect could be a red flag the kid is not developing properly.
The 1st rounder is a late one. Those are overvalued around here. Not a high chance the pick becomes an NHLer. So basically Barrie was the most important piece in the trade.
If I remembered his cap hit was 5.5M vs 4.5M for Matheson