Well he's a shutdown dman, so not sure that's at all relevant.I'm curious what deal the guy who wrote the first meaningful piece on age curves gives him
How scoring rates change as players age
In part one of a series on how players age, we look at forward scoring.www.sbnation.com
It's just cool that the guy that started the debate on age curves in earnest now is the GM and has a test with Slavin. I understand the analysis is based on scoring rates, but that's also cause scoring rates are much more easily measurable, certainly to an amateur posting on SBNation.
In principle I get the why of it but at the same time it severely limits them like now losing Jake who played at an elite level.
It's prioritizing long term cap flexibility over everything else
For every Vlasic there are plenty of guys who age very well. He's more of an exception than the rule.
It's 6 straight years, and they've won a playoff series each of those years, with 8 total series wins in those 6 years. Hard to say that's a failure.
When you are considered a cup favourite and bow out in the 2nd round and swept in a series or two, ya I'd say that's a failure but I'm the type that doesn't believe in everyone's a winner and gets a participation ribbon and anything less than 1st is a failure. Especially for a team that's been there six years in a row and was considered a legit team to at least get out of the East
There are other ways to keep flexible with the cap. If and I'm not sure age is the reason or if Jake even wants to stay but if the reason they let him walk is so 5 years from now when they for all we know might suck was just to have flexibility, well that's just dumb.
Vlasic was widely considered the best defensive dmanein the entire league this is completely untrue.
Hjalmarsson aged very well. Heck I'd argue in their primes Hjalmarsson was bettter defensively than Vlasic.
Slavin for me is very easily the better defender. Vlasic was solid but not nearly as complete of a shutdown dman.
Look at the teams that have eliminated them:
He just turned 30 and is a tremendous skater. Even if he slowly loses a bit of edge, he should age quite well. The way he uses his positioning and stick work in combination with his mobility - there’s nothing about that that should fall off a cliff at age 33 or 34. I’d bet he’s still a very good player into the final years of an extension, even if it’s a slow step down from ace top pairing guy to more of a second pair and PK usage on the back couple of years.
Agreed, I suspect he'll age quite well. His defensive style is stylistically very similar to Lidstrom. Positional, high IQ defender.
People say this about every single guy that signs at 29-30. Like every single time. This guy is different he's going to age very well. It just doesn't happen for guys like Slavin. Guys that tend to still have decent careers into their 30s are offensive D man who can still QB a PP. Only 2 guys in the league right now are 35+ and playing 20+ minutes. Letang & Burns. Slavin isn't that type of D man.
Hjalmarsson fell off in his early 30s. How is that aging very well? His last season was at 33.
You don’t know Jaccob Slavin I guess. Chasing every last dollar is not what’s important to him at all. Canes will pay him because he’s worth it but it’s likely going to come in less than what he would get on the open market. When Staal retires he’s the Canes next captain. He means everything to the org and community and other than faith and family they mean everything to him.
