Barely a top 10 producer in the regular season and not even a top 25 producer in the playoffs during those contracts.
One of the best producers in the league (and a top 2 producer on the team) in the regular season and playoffs, while playing the toughest roles on the team and bringing elite defense and PKing. Replacing his impacts within his cap space would be incredibly difficult, and Treliving has not shown an ability to do that.
Well, Games 1-3/4 in the 1st round is much easier to get points in
That is not true. Where did you get this idea from? In fact, the SCF had a higher average goals per game than the rest of the playoffs. Historically, there is no round-based production effects. The only time historically that production tends to dip is game 7s in any round.
These other players over a PPG in the playoffs had easy routes.
They faced situations more conducive to production, that's for sure. You're looking at team-based production changes caused by mostly external differences in situations faced and crediting/blaming individuals that simply follow that trend. Even more ridiculous, our issue has been conversion, not generation, and you're blaming the person who primarily generates, not a converter.
Even when the route to the cup or even further advancement in the playoffs was easy for us it wasn't.
The route to the cup has never been easy for us. The Atlantic division has been represented in the cup finals 7 times in the last 6 years, and the division has been stacked with elite goaltenders that have put up elite performances against both us and quite a few other teams on their runs. Since 2018-2019, the goalies we have faced have combined for +75.7 GSAx through their cup runs against a wide variety of teams, and have won Cups, Conn Smythes, Vezinas, set playoff records, etc. Good defenses can and have been overcome. Breaking through a hot elite goalie is not so simple. They have extraordinary impact on games.
Trades that happen in the real world aren't the ones you see on a video game. You aren't gonna get everything you want and what you get you probably aren't gonna be happy with most likely, especially when it involves a star player.
Exactly. It's stupid to do. There's no realistic proposals that make us better.
3 years with good defence and depth and we still failed. Is that really the standard we accept around here now?
All teams except one fail every year. Not winning the cup with a great team does not mean it's a good idea to make yourself worse and screw up your future chances.
We never beat Tampa despite you saying we were one of the best teams in the league all those years.
We did beat Tampa one of those years, and we deserved to beat them the year before too.
He was overpaid off his ELC. He had 1 season where he got more than 70 points and that 1 contract year earned him 11 million dollars out of his ELC?
He was not overpaid off of his ELC, and it wasn't just based off of 1 year. He got the 10th highest post-ELC cap hit percentage in the cap era, term considered, after the 6th best pre-signing period. He earned it, both at the time, and since.
