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Why has Taylor Hall failed to find a home?

He might have a Phil Kessel career i.e. win at least one cup or more as not the main guy but lets see.

Sad to see Hallsy go but as someone noted he was a cap casualty.

I wish him the best as he was great in Boston and a very likeable guy.
 
latest trade is due to cap problems with the bruins. I say the hawks flip him on the draft floor for a 1st and 3rd at 50% retained
 
Hynh said:
On the contrary, he didn't take a steep enough one if he really wanted to win.
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Bruins added literally everything they could to their line up they could last year. What difference would an extra million in cap space realistically have made? They were stacked.
 
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People can dump on the Adam Larsson trade as much as they like. Larsson has been more dependable than him and they are oilers are still looking to replace what he brings
 
ZachaFlockaFlame said:
Oilers - he's said countless times he wanted to be the solution there and everyone knows he Chiarelli f***ed up that trade. Not sure how this is his fault.

NJ - he was on the wrong timeline by being in his prime and the Devils not being good at all yet. Again, not sure how this is his fault considering he was traded and did the everything they asked.

Buffalo - he did this to get money during the covid flat cap and then sign again where he wanted + NMC basically let him pick his spot at the deadline when Buffalo sucked, anyone blaming him for this is insane.

Boston - he was one of their only guys who showed up in the playoffs this past spring, he was a cap casualty over Bertuzzi when I personally don't know why they picked the latter but whatever



You basically posted the spark notes of my write up, :laugh:
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They look to be picking Bertuzzi because of fit with Pasta.

Hall + Pasta puts up points but is way too rush focused for the playoffs.

Marchand + Pasta has proven to be too too heavy.

Hall on the third line was a luxury they couldn’t afford. Bertuzzi is just a better fit with Pasta, even if he isn’t as good of an all around player. They like Hall he was just going to be maximized playing with Krejci and someone that could shoot and win board battles and they never had that mix.
 
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Hall was kind of screwed in Boston. He played 3rd line for this past year. The year before he got some time on the second but his centers were Haula and Coyle. He was arguably our best player this post season. I think he still has it in him to be a top line winger or at the very least a second line winger as long as he’s got a good center. I hated to see him go.
 
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Yeti34 said:
Hall was kind of screwed in Boston. He played 3rd line for this past year. The year before he got some time on the second but his centers were Haula and Coyle. He was arguably our best player this post season. I think he still has it in him to be a top line winger or at the very least a second line winger as long as he’s got a good center. I hated to see him go.
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Hall Haula Pastrnak changed the whole direction of that team when it was put together. But, it also was a line that got totally shutdown by Carolina taking away the rush game. Hall just didn't fit on a roster that didn't want Marchand and Pasta together for being too top heavy and didn't want Hall and Pasta together for being too rush heavy.
 
He choose to move around and forced his way to one team.

When you do decide to go to a contender and don't have full trade protection this is what happens.
 
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WarriorofTime said:
He’s played for so many teams after being a former first overall. I can’t even keep track. Why was he never able to find a more permanent location?
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Because he’s an idiot goofball.

More specifically:

1. Taylor Hall took three tries to get his BOATING LICENSE.

2. After the Oilers drafted McDavid, he tweeted something to the effect of “welcome to the Oilers Connor, try not to ruin everything we’ve built.”

Pro sports is a mindset, and he’s nothing but pure talent. He doesn’t have the Psycho Tom/“and I took that personally” edge to him - he’s just a handsome, gifted young dude who realized he can crush 10s and cash cheques doing things at his pace, so why change?

One of the more frustrating, confusing careers in recent memory - his MVP in New Jersey really happened! It wasn’t a fever dream.

Alas, it was his peak.
 
He’s gotten into shitty situations through really no fault of his own.

Drafted into Edmonton and then subsequently shouldered all of the blame when he couldn’t make a team that still can’t shake its loser status a winner.

Went to NJ and had an MVP season on what was the only semi-decent team he played on before coming to Boston.

Traded to an Arizona team and immediately blamed for its predictable failure.

Signed a deal in Buffalo in which seemingly the entire organization was depressed and began being called a perennial loser because somehow this was all his fault again.

Finally came to a good team in Boston and performed admirably and was known as a good teammate. Traded out because he was the easiest contract to move with no retention for a team with a massive cap crunch.

Now to Chicago and will probably be unfairly called a loser yet again when he can’t miraculously turn the team around in a season with Bedard.

HarrySPlinkett said:
Because he’s an idiot goofball.

More specifically:

1. Taylor Hall took three tries to get his BOATING LICENSE.

2. After the Oilers drafted McDavid, he tweeted something to the effect of “welcome to the Oilers Connor, try not to ruin everything we’ve built.”

Pro sports is a mindset, and he’s nothing but pure talent. He doesn’t have the Psycho Tom/“and I took that personally” edge to him - he’s just a handsome, gifted young dude who realized he can crush 10s and cash cheques doing things at his pace, so why change?

One of the more frustrating, confusing careers in recent memory - his MVP in New Jersey really happened! It wasn’t a fever dream.

Alas, it was his peak.
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See this wasn’t what happened at all in Boston.

He was a hard working player in all three zones. Sure, he wasn’t lights out every game but effort was rarely a problem.
 
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He's completely incapable of playing with star players. He requires linemates that compliment him and not the other way around so playing with McDavid, NJs youngsters, Eichel, Boston's core all of them didn't work which is part of the reason I think this trade was a waste of time for Chicago unless they flip him at some point because Bedard and Hall won't mesh.
 
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Looking back after 13 years, were either Taylor or Tyler really that franchise changing player?
 
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