It still shows that he is a line killer, as he is a volume shooter who can't outscore Galchenyuk was more the point being made. Only Matthews shoots more often than Hall in our top-6, and everyone currently there has a better shooting % than Hall. The last thing the Leafs need is a shot happy player who can't score goals in their top-6.
I think we're either really overestimating Hall defensively or really overestimating Mikheyev defensively... probably the latter of the two
Dallas, but only because of the expansion draft, he'd get exposed by them. However the Leafs could acquire assets for Dermott in a 2nd deal (Ottawa would be a great fit, both as a hockey trade & expansion wise) that should more than pay for Oleksiak as long as they're willing to give him up.
This could be good for the Leafs or bad because they could only take on about 1/4 of his contract... if say Buffalo & Chicago could manage that retention without the Leafs giving up too much, it could work. Leafs could even take on Chicago's Zach Smith LTIR contract as apart of it, doing so they really shouldn't owe Chicago anything because in reality they'd be saving Chicago money.
Agreed Oleksiak would be a big upgrade to Dermott on the third pair & he would bring a lot of valuable playoff toughness on top of it. I believe the pair would work, although Oleksiak is a big body, impressively he can actually skate pretty well & has a good skillset.
Definitely seems like they are leaning towards a 4-4-1 setup currently. But they do have flexibility to sign guys, or trade for guys with term.
I'm not seeing a player who has an opportunity to advance as everyone above him has term, so he's locked into his role. I think that Oleksiak is better suited for the bottom pairing role.
You still also can't blame one single player on a team for goals against. I personally know nothing about Halls's defensive game but I don't like the narrative on using stats that are team-based. You can't judge a single player on their defense with goals against unless it's clearly bad judgment on their part (so their fault that led to the goal) which is what the eye test is for.
Definitely would over Sekera, but they'd probably go with a 7-3 with Heiskanen, Klingberg, Lindell being the D right? Otherwise they'd be exposing some pretty good forwards. You may have forgotten that Heiskanen isn't exempt, he's just 1 year off being eligible for exemption.
Yep, I was looking directly at that and it didn't even click that Heiskanen wasn't exempt. Good catch.
That could work. The other 2 could just cover for him on the D side, and Hyman can go into the corners and get him the biscuit.
