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Shi Shaw
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Taylor Hall?
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Schennanigans
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DudeWhereIsMakar
Bergevin sent me an offer sheet
This off season he's gonna sign a long-term cheap contract with a contending team like Toronto. I think he's at the point of his career where he doesn't want to be traded anymore.
kerrabria
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He was a below average number one overall pick, was never supposed to be a franchise changer. Edmonton sucked for long enough that he (as an offense-only winger with injury history) became redundant and a trade candidate.
Went to New Jersey and had one crazy year but the other two was just another one dimensional first line winger.
After that, he was a victim of the flat cap. Signed a one-year deal to delay locking into term. Then signed a mid-term deal with a different team, but (again) he's a one dimensional, injury prone, Top 6 winger. You're first out the door when a good team needs cap space.
MVP of West Hollywd
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FDBluth
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His straight ahead speed is still pretty good. But his agility/maneuverability/quickness has declined a lot.
Nogatco Rd
Pierre-Luc Dubas
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Glad this dude isn’t anywhere near my team, heard nothing but bad things. Wasn’t that impressed with his comments after leaving Chicago either
www.nytimes.com
Taylor Hall on Blackhawks: ‘I was happy to be traded’
Hall's tone in Carolina is not bitter, but relieved — and more than anything, excited.
www.nytimes.com
Always thought he and Seguin should’ve switched places in the 2010 draft
Calderon
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I got a good chuckle out of this. It's like dude swindles himself in a team, then eventually gets found out and promptly sent on his way.
McGarnagle
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I've been beating the drum for years. Every time the topic of that draft comes up, I mention that I firmly believe that if Seguin went to Edmonton and Hall went to Boston, both would have had significantly better careers.
The Panther
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I was never completely sold on him, even when he was one of the top players for the Oil.
Obviously, the wheels were there. The skillset was good, but the hockey IQ kind of average. Defensively, he was poor, but so was his entire team in that era.
As has been noted, he has an abrasive personality according to some, and at least in his younger days seemed to be kind of dismissive of decorated veterans (famously fought with Andrew Ference in Edmonton; dissed Glenn Anderson in the locker room as a rookie).
Lack of defense and locker-room issues are things that GMs don't find attractive.
Once the Oilers seemed set with McDavid in place, the first thing they did was unload Hall.
18 months after he won the Hart, Jersey unloaded him in mid-season.
Once his contract was up, Arizona didn't offer him anything to stay.
Buffalo (best-run franchise in the League... NOT!) made him a huge offer and signed him. 37 games later... they unloaded him.
He had one good-ish full season in Boston, from which point he has settled into being an unspectacular 2nd liner (3rd liner on strong teams).
I think the best way to describe Hall is that he is (or WAS) an elite-level talent who needs to be positioned as a complimentary player in order to be successful.
Obviously, the wheels were there. The skillset was good, but the hockey IQ kind of average. Defensively, he was poor, but so was his entire team in that era.
As has been noted, he has an abrasive personality according to some, and at least in his younger days seemed to be kind of dismissive of decorated veterans (famously fought with Andrew Ference in Edmonton; dissed Glenn Anderson in the locker room as a rookie).
Lack of defense and locker-room issues are things that GMs don't find attractive.
Once the Oilers seemed set with McDavid in place, the first thing they did was unload Hall.
18 months after he won the Hart, Jersey unloaded him in mid-season.
Once his contract was up, Arizona didn't offer him anything to stay.
Buffalo (best-run franchise in the League... NOT!) made him a huge offer and signed him. 37 games later... they unloaded him.
He had one good-ish full season in Boston, from which point he has settled into being an unspectacular 2nd liner (3rd liner on strong teams).
I think the best way to describe Hall is that he is (or WAS) an elite-level talent who needs to be positioned as a complimentary player in order to be successful.
