Epic troll fail. New Jetsey has consistently been the best defensive team in the league for 25 years. Larsson was, in the opinion of their fans and people in the know (not you) to be the best part of that defense last season.
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Epic troll fail. New Jetsey has consistently been the best defensive team in the league for 25 years. Larsson was, in the opinion of their fans and people in the know (not you) to be the best part of that defense last season.
Vlasic, that "do it all" defenseman has been a 20-25 point player throughout most of his career yet he was still good enough to be named to Team Canada and was widely considered leaguewide as a #1 Dman. The point being that you don't need to put up big points to be considered a #1 Dman. I prefer a premier shutdown Dman to an offensive Dman personally. Those guys are gold in big games. No guarantees of course that Larsson becomes a Vlasic level Dman but he's certainly trending in that direction.
Now you're providing fallacies to push your agenda, perhaps in desperation? Everybody knows that the Devils were one of the strongest defensive units in the league last season. Schneider certainly played a part but that team locked down opponents on the regular with the Greene-Larsson pairing playing a huge part in that. Believing anything else is being dishonest.
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I equate elite Top pairing D to be either capable of putting up a lot of offense or they are physical man mountains that can stop any oncoming trains. Larsson is neither of these.
From all reports I'm reasonably satisfied Larsson will be good with the puck. i'm not as confident he's going to be as good without the puck in the WC where winning puck battles against giant redwood forwards is very unlike the typical action found in the EC. Indeed this is been Sekera's main struggle here not realizing the forecheck in WC is quick and deadly. Its a whole other game for D in this conference. If You can be a top D in this conference you can do it anywhere.
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Weak defensive team, huh?
Quite the falsehood you're using to try and strengthen your argument.
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Over 1000 posts in this thread and 5000 total on the subject. I think that everyone has had a chance to make their opinion known, it's time to move on.
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If Lars resigned, we won in a land slide.Hall was a healthy scratch yesterday. We won the deal.
Anyways, BRING HALL HOME.
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Last we need is another old slow 4th liner
We won the trade anyway. We traded from a strength for a position of need and went on upswing after that brought us to a final last year.
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I still think making the playoffs that year could only happen with an improved D. And likely it made McDavid's 8-Year Extension easier to sign having showed we were contenders. So yeh, I liked the trade back then.
He doesn't look that slow out there in my brief watches.
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He recently was a healthy scratch. How bad do you have to be, to be a healthy scratch for Chicago? Pretty bad I would imagine, so a big no thanks from me.
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I mean that comes down to the coach. Could have been effort rather than ability. I don’t know much about Richardson’s coaching, but like Torts recently scratched Michkov and I’d trade an arm and a leg for Michkov.
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Hall was scratched because he gives 2 shits about backchecking same as all his years here
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Mitchkov is a raw rookie, and also still integrating himself into NA and English, etc. That happens all the time to young guys. Not a very good look for a vet trying to stay employed on one of the worst teams in the league.
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I don't want him back, but I think it interesting to look back and how pissed everyone was, and Hall has never been close to the career we all expected when we drafted him.
I don't think the two are comparable. You don't scratch a vet unless you have good reason. And Torts doesn't need a reason to mess with a player. He probably looks at it as "Testing their mettle."
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Maybe. Hall must come home to start the dynasty. The house is still waiting.
EDIT: YALL HATE DYNASTIES WHATEVER.
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1. The Oilers lost the trade. Not even debatable. At the time Hall was worth a hell of a lot more than Larsson.
2. Hall didn’t get scratched because he can’t play. He got scratched because he has a bad attitude and has never been a guy who can take an honest look at his shortcomings.
3. Hall is not close to the most over-rated Oiler. That would be Horcoff for sure. In fact if Horcoff hadn’t been so over rated and over paid there would have been no reason to give Hall, Eberle and RNH those $6 million contracts that kick started the end of the first rebuild.
2. Hall didn’t get scratched because he can’t play. He got scratched because he has a bad attitude and has never been a guy who can take an honest look at his shortcomings.
3. Hall is not close to the most over-rated Oiler. That would be Horcoff for sure. In fact if Horcoff hadn’t been so over rated and over paid there would have been no reason to give Hall, Eberle and RNH those $6 million contracts that kick started the end of the first rebuild.
