If he was only going to Toronto this is a stupid contract to give him. He is going to be 31 this year the age average players start to decline. He has a small sample size and is about to get paid until he is 39. They better hope last year wasn’t a fluke.
Yes...he got slower while having his career 70 point year. Imagine how many points he would have had if he wasnt old and broken down....do you people ever read what you write? You want to disparage the Leafs so badly you will say anything, no matter how silly.
lol, no one is going to care when he’s even 35 and 3rd pair dmen are making this same amount. Why are you so obsessed with an 8.5 per deal? He’s literally 32nd in percentage of cap. Worry about something else because this ain’t it.
factoring cost, age and production, from this list I only take 7 players over Raddysh, so, not too shabby.
I'm going to suggest that it's probably likely that none of the seven on your list were available this summer?
There’s 5 on there for me and 2 additional players that are close to what I expect from Raddysh moving forwards .
Dahlin, Bouchard, Werenski, Fox, McAvoy, Makar and Seider should be locks on anyone's list. Which one of those 7 don't fall into your 5?
Only count 5, pressuming reasonable health for AP, and 4/5 are mainly due to age.
From the list provided I’d have Raddysh above
He will not be 31 this year. He is a late bloomer. Wouldn’t expect the typical career progression/regression at this point. I’m sure we can agree that Leafs needed to improve their D core, who would you have signed or traded for instead ?
31 in February . So not for awhile ( 7 months ish ) yet . Not a ton of miles on those tires at any rate
It does make sense if you compare within context.
Fair enough. And I don't necessarily disagree with your reasoning.
Dobson's hovered around 45-50 points for the bulk of his prime (5 straight seasons now). He had that one outlier of 70 points, but otherwise has shown he's capable of being around a 50 point defenseman. And at 26 years old, that's generally still an age where defensemen improve, especially in the defensive end as they gain more experience.
Quoting my different criteria depending on the age/experience of the player being compared and then just writing "makes sense" in a sarcastic way is very much snark. If you'd simply posted your three paragraphs above in the first post it would have been "disagreeing and pointing out flawed thinking".
I think people are really sleeping on Reilly. With a new uptempo system that activates the defence, he is going to be right in his wheelhouse as a #4 that isn’t expected to carry a huge defensive load. Addition by subtraction of Berube and his moron coaching to a team not built to play that type of game.
