Speculation: Why didn't Rasmus Sandin cut it as a Leaf?

[RoadWarrior]

Sandin has very poor acceleration, very poor defending the cycle and forecheck. Looking back starting with Hunter, he didnt address the right side d with an early picks except Liljegren but that was his 3rd draft. In 2015 the Leafs had no right dmen, no size either on the backend. Too choose Dermott when Gardiner and Reilly were there didnt make sense, Brandon Carlo a 6-5 right shot dman with from the usntp didnt fit a need? Korshkov a 22 yr old undrafted player in 2016, early second round pick didnt make sense either. The drafting of Ben Danford makes sense, right shot defense first guy it fits a need, this should have been the focus of every draft starting in 2017. 2020 they over looked Braden Schneider a big right shot dman. Leafs now are half way thru with these guys and alot of wasted picks, traded picks have hurt this teams progress.

it's always better to draft best player available. Drafting for “need” is a good way for scouts to get fired.

 

[Its not your fault]

He was good at it. He won his minutes by every stistical measure, averaged 2 blocks a game and 2 hits a game. Was he an all star? Not even close. He was an average number 4. The problem is everyone is expecting him to be Maker and Shea Weber all rolled into one. He is who he is. An average 2nd pair dman.

Wait till he finds out about how he did when Rielly was out. Some players need minutes to stay consistent. Fresh legs is nice but they make Lazy legs.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

He seemed to be putting it all together as he entered the league. Thought he would be at least Rielly-level but it never really clicked. What happened?

because he wasn't good enough it's that simple

 

[BertCorbeau]

His play style wasn’t exactly what was needed for the composition of the blue line.

He’s developed fine. One year in Washington and his play hasn’t drastically changed. Got a nice contract to boot.

 

[TMLBlueandWhite]

Sandin had it coming that's why.

Entitled as all hell demanding ice time, deployment, and money he didn’t earn. That’s a failure on management for not properly vetting Sandin before drafting him. Not being able to judge character well.

If there's one thing Dubas was good at it was overlooking personality flaws.

Now the whole team is stacked with entitled "me first" players. Trading Sandin did nothing to solve that. A year later and hey, look at that, Robertson wants out too for the exact same reason.

He's sick of seeing the team waste assets on junk that pushes him down the lineup.

Imagine being Sandin and asking Dubas for a trade so as to afford you more opportunity. I can just see Dubas patting Sandin on the back with one hand assuring him that with all the injuries at the time there was ample opportunity with the Leafs. All Sandin had to do was sign on the dotted line.

Then stabs in the back with the other hand just a few months later.

 

[Donnie740]

Sandin is hopelessly slow footed, terrified of his own shadow and piss-poor defensively. Essentially, he was the prototype player of Dumbass and Bozo the Keefe.

 

[RoadWarrior]

Sandin is hopelessly slow footed, terrified of his own shadow and piss-poor defensively. Essentially, he was the prototype player of Dumbass and Bozo the Keefe.

He has good puck handling skills and shooting ability so he projected as a third pairing PP specialist but his defensive play actually regressed after his first season in the nhl as he refused to listen to the coaching staff. Classic star in junior who gets exposed in the pros. I watched him a few times with the marlies and always thought Lilly was the better player despite his lesser offensive totals.

Dubas could never draft pro ready players.