Simple thought idea have them switch teams and how would they fare?
Hard to say - Minnesota isn't exactly an offensive power house, but I imagine he'd do pretty well with Kaprizov. Faber would stand out even more in Chicago relative to the team.
yeah, in no way is Fantilli better than Bedard, but he's been playing with a lot more support 5v5, especially in the last month or so, where he's spent a lot of time with Gaudreau.
Faber most certainly wouldn't be in the Calder discussion and he will probably drop out of the race soon as well, voters historically vote for scoring. One can look at the Lidstrom/Bure year for example.
I don't think Faber is in the Calder discussion anyways, but that doesn't mean he hasn't been the best rookie to date.
Kaprizov has had his own struggles staying afloat at 5v5 this season, that line would have gotten crushed at the start with the way the Wild were playing. If Bedard were on the Wild he would probably be with Boldy and Marcus Johansson as his most common line mates, although Boldy did also miss lots of time so likely a split. The Wild wouldn’t have traded Addison most likely in this scenario and he would be our top pairing defenseman eating all of Fabers minutes. Gus would have never rebounded from his horrid start with that team in front of him IMO.
You should put Faber Hater in your signature so people can recognize and ignore.
It's a shame but all rebuilds have to start somewhere. Hopefully he can hold up over the full season. Really impressive as a teenager.
Kind of ironic that the Calder is for best first year player though but like I said it's highly unlikely that Faber would be looking as good on the Black Hawks.
Yeah, but voters only care about points these days. If Drew Doughty were a rookie in 2015-16 he probably loses the Calder to Panarin even though he won the Norris that year lol.
Nonsense, he would be looking the exact same on Chicago or NJ or the Ducks. It would be the team around him that would be different and how the coach uses him. So far two different coaches have heavily leaned on him and I don’t think any coach would do differently. He has played with every defensemen on the roster and has been with Middleton as his partner while making plays like above. Every team in the league has a better defender than Middleton.
LMAO, I'm a "Faber Hater"? You need to relax bud. Just because I find it hilarous that anyone thinks Faber is a better rookie than Bedard does not mean I "hate Faber"
You literally went after someone for posting a vid of Faber. It's pretty obvious you have some wire crossed when it comes to either Faber or people who want to talk about Faber. Maybe both.
I'm too tired to point out the obvious as Faber would be on the ice for a lot more GA.
How is that obvious or definitive in any way? There is less than a goal per game difference between Chicago and Minnesota goals against this season. Add Faber to Chicago and remove their worst Defenseman, that is very easily overcome within the expected results.
Admitting Faber would be good on Chicago would take away the extra 1,000,000 points Bedard gets for being good on a shit Chicago team. Can’t have that. Let’s just ignore that Faber is top 30 for 5v5 GA/60 among dmen with 200 minutes. Let‘s also ignore that of the players in front of him, only Josh Morrissey has played more 5v5 minutes. Faber is also #23 for 5v5 HDCA/60 among dmen. Obviously, these mean absolutely nothing because like Kaprizov or something.
None of that materially changes anything about how Brock Faber looks unless you are incapable of assessing a player individually. And the exact same can be said about his MN situation, I don’t expect you to know the nuances of MNs cap and injury challenges this season, but Middleton is very obviously not an ideal partner, I mentioned previously that if you do actually care, you can take a look at middleton’s stats playing the Wilds other rookie defensemen this year and you see the massive gulf right away.
