Yeah, it's called getting lucky with injury timing and then cheating.
We've brought in a ton of goalies, and they certainly did a heck of a lot more than Vegas, who just grabbed 2 goalies that had struggled to hold an NHL job as even a backup.
Samsonov outperformed Vasilevsky, the best goalie of a generation, just this past year.
Team results are a result of the team. They want to be paid for their individual quality and impact, just like everybody else.
By pretty well every metric, Marner has been better than Eichel. The salary difference is opinion so fine with that. It just that I have always found the correlation of value to only be causal insomuch as centers are usually the best forwards. The position requires good 2 way players but it's not like we aren't seeing that from Marner. Typically, centers are playmaker and forwards are finishers. Playmaker are a rare breed.
I know Ceci wasn't a 3C. I was just laughing at how I said they didn't need three centers making almost 30M, so they traded Kadri's 4.5, and your response was that they paid Ceci that much.
To be clear, Ceci was a return from dumping Zaitsev, and Ottawa had already qualified him and he was set for arbitration, looking for a raise on the 4.3m he made the year before.
What does a highlight package prove? It proves Eichel was phenomenal and not being "carried by a 5 million dollar player" as you suggested.
Highlight packages prove nothing. It's inherently a list of cherry picked positive moments. It doesn't prove Eichel was phenomenal, or better than our players, and it doesn't prove that he didn't benefit massively from Marchessault's performance.
A highlight package is visual evidence of talent and skill lol. Feel free to show everyone a similar highlight package with cherry picked positive moments from Marners playoffs.
The only thing a highlight package shows is that good players have positive moments, which is already obvious. It doesn't mean anything.
Eichel had 26 points in 22 games... You said he was carried by a 5 million linemate. This highlight package of those very playoffs are proof your wrong. He was dominant.
No, it's not. Highlight packages prove nothing. It is showing a tiny percentage of his play where only the positive moments are cherry picked. Every player is going to have good moments, especially good players. That is not an accurate representation of the overall quality of his play throughout the playoffs. It is by very definition a skewed view.
Okay, I’ll put the blame where it needs to go. Ultimately, it goes to MLSE. They’re making a shitload of money despite this team’s playing without passion at times, including playoffs, as well as their inability to win in crucial situations. Then we pass it on down to Shanahan, and on to Dubas.
I think it's a pretty silly waste of time to go around ranking the moves of a guy who doesn't even work for the team anymore, but off the top of my head, my least favourite moves would probably include some of the goaltending choices, signings like Simmonds/NAK/Ritchie, and our 2021 deadline choices. Unfortunately, we couldn't even properly discuss most of those at the time, because people were too busy misrepresenting and exaggerating everything.
He was always a fine player with loads of skill.. but he was a mess as well..
You can't be a good player and a mess at the same time. He was a good player, that like many players, had flaws. He wasn't ideal (which is why he wasn't the initial target), but he did fill a role we needed filled, checked off a lot of boxes that people wanted, and the one year term meant that we could try and get Brodie the next offseason. It's hilarious that so many people talk about how we should have traded Kadri for a top-4 defensive defenseman with term, and not doing so destroyed the team, but that's literally what we ended up with a year later.
The GM's job is to project what a player being targeted in a trade will be. Kyle's evaluation of Barrie was wrong. Kerfoot, despite his faults, saved the trade from being a total disaster.
Your point was that if he had $11M instead of $4.5 he still would have signed just Ceci to fix our D?
And you are spot on with your assessment. Although I feel Eichel also plays with an edge, whereas Marner tends to shy away. It’s just so frustrating that Matthews and Marner took Dubas (I still say Shanahan was the main culprit) to the cleaners with their last contract. And from what I’m hearing (no, no legitimate sources), there will be no money left on the table after Matthews signs, so therefore none after Marner signs either. At some point, I think management needs to make a stand. Just because huge mistakes were made on the last negotiations, doesn’t mean they need to keep doing it.
Treeliving is his own guy. Grateful we don't have someone like Holland making the deals.
So Leafs can keep playing by the rules, although if a team was cheating, you would certainly think the other owners would put a stop to it (or maybe they’re all waiting until they get their chance).
