Confirmed Trade: [COL/TOR] Denis Malgin for Dryden Hunt

[notbias]

Not to rain on anyone's parade... but he is shooting 18% with the Avs.

He can drive play really well, so I think he is still a useful player, but I'd expect his goal-scoring to go down a little.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Not to rain on anyone's parade... but he is shooting 18% with the Avs.

He can drive play really well, so I think he is still a useful player, but I'd expect his goal-scoring to go down a little.

His full year shooting percentage is in line with his career. Kinda "bought" low when his shooting percentage in Toronto was probably hilariously bad.

 

[Muffin]

Not to rain on anyone's parade... but he is shooting 18% with the Avs.

He can drive play really well, so I think he is still a useful player, but I'd expect his goal-scoring to go down a little.

They literally got him for Dryden Hunt. It's a win even if he doesn't score another point for the rest of the year.

 

[Pi]

Best player in the league with Mal_in in his name (Sorry Malkin, it's just facts).

 

[HockeyVirus]

So now Leaf are loser for getting rid of a 5 foot 8 150 pound winger? Were people not saying they had to get grittier?

 

[notbias]

His full year shooting percentage is in line with his career. Kinda "bought" low when his shooting percentage in Toronto was probably hilariously bad.

ya, it was like 4%, he showed flashes of brilliance, and a lot of grade-A chances, I am just saying the Colorado numbers are inflated and Toronto numbers are low. His yearly average is fair.

 

[howboutahug]

So now Leaf are loser for getting rid of a 5 foot 8 150 pound winger? Were people not saying they had to get grittier?

5'9 182 alright? And yes, the Leafs are still losers

 

[The Management]

I'm still amused NHL.com managed to get Malkin into his background / banner picture.

 

[Tralfamadore]

This guy's got a legit shit at 61 goals next year.

 

[Tufted Titmouse]

This guy's got a legit shit

His shits/60 are outta control

 

[Leon Lucius Black]

This guy's got a legit shit at 61 goals next year.

Didn't know his bowel movements were that strong.

 

[Muffin]

That's Tim Horton's pick em third box legend Denis Malgin to you.

 

[Wats]

That's Tim Horton's pick em third box legend Denis Malgin to you.

LOL him and Wyatt Johnston have been machines

 

[forsbergavs32]

ya, it was like 4%, he showed flashes of brilliance, and a lot of grade-A chances, I am just saying the Colorado numbers are inflated and Toronto numbers are low. His yearly average is fair.

The Avs system seems to inflate numbers so not too surprising. But if he lands somewhere in the middle between his numbers in Toronto and what he’s doing right now that’s still a solid bottom 6 guy. I’d be happy with that for sure.

 

[Drew311]

The Leafs gave him a shot....twice. Some players just don't fit into a system for whatever reason.

If he has aspirations of ever making more than 1M on future contracts I think he'll be out of the league. If he's a realist and works for league minimum the rest of his career he could stick for a while.

 

[notbias]

When you gave him away for nothing and he's having success somewhere else? Ya

He has been replaced by better players, he'd be fighting for a spot with ZAR right now, and I think they would both get bumped for Knies.

It was a trade to give him a shot somewhere, and it worked out for him, and the Avs, which is good.

If the Leafs roll with similar lines that they have now for the playoffs, which player in this bottom 6 is pushed out?

Knies - ROR - Nylander
Lafferty - Kampf - Acciari

 

[dirtydanglez]

nice steal for the avs

 

[bossram]

I was pretty adamant that he was an NHL calibre player and should be in the lineup this season. Nice to see the Avs finding some good uses for him.

 

[vpasla1]

I was wondering why this popped up to the top, so i went and saw he had 4 points in his last 2 games. Calm down people.

Prior to these two games, he had 28 games and 8 points with the Avalanche. Prior to the trade, he had 23 games and 4 points with the Leafs this year.

What you see is what you get at this point.

 

[Ovi895]

Leafs somehow managed to lose the Malgin trade twice, first giving up Marchment for him then giving up him for Hunt

 

[AllDay28]

When you gave him away for nothing and he's having success somewhere else? Ya

12 pts in 30 games is success?

 

[Bender]

I was wondering why this popped up to the top, so i went and saw he had 4 points in his last 2 games. Calm down people.

Prior to these two games, he had 28 games and 8 points with the Avalanche. Prior to the trade, he had 23 games and 4 points with the Leafs this year.

What you see is what you get at this point.

That's one way to look at it. Another way is that he has 7 of those points in his last 9 games and playing with a ton of confidence. He's gotten an increase in ice-time not only because of injuries but because he's earned it.

It usually takes some time for new players to get used to playing in Bednar's system. We saw it with Josh Manson last year who looked horrible when he first arrived and we've also seen in with Lars Eller in his first 7-8 games and he finally now is starting to turn it around and play really well.

I'm not suggesting that Malgin will keep that sort of pace but I'd be pretty happy to keep him as a 3rd line RW who has the ability to fill-in the Top-6 in case of injuries. The Avs bottom-6 is certainly not the most productive in the NHL, far from it.

 

[Machinehead]

Bump aside, Dryden Hunt is a very good 4th liner and if were 6'3", somebody would be overpaying him by like 300%.

 

[McJedi]

Malgin has high end skills, he has shown plenty in Switzerland. I always wondered why he couldn‘t get his s*** together in the NHL. Maybe he has turned a corner. He‘s a good guy, has a lot of drive to be in the NHL (if Gregory Hoffmann had even 1/10th of Malgin‘s drive, he could have been a good player in the NHL), I hope he keeps doing well.

He’s already scored 8 goals in Colorado. He’s a player for the Avs. He’s making a difference. He’s helping them outscore the other team with some frequency. Good player. Definitely has some top six scoring chops.

Being an up and down type requires an up.

There was no up, that's why he's in Colorado

And now it’s mostly up. And the other team digging pucks out of their net. Pucks Malgin put in there vs bottom six lines. Big goals for a team that has had issues with bottom six productivity.

 

[Namikaze Minato]

Great time for him to find his stride for the Avs, if he keeps it up into the playoffs he could be getting himself his first big chance at a payday.