We got a 3rd for him ??
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA
I think his stock would have been higher before last season, that is the 2014-15 season, when Lou signed him to a one way contract if I remember it right. At that time people still saw the raw slap shot and thought he'd be at least a power play force.
Why are you so surprised? He's actually better than you think he is.
Why are you so surprised? He's actually better than you think he is.
Why are you so surprised? He's actually better than you think he is.
It will be fun watching him try to defend in that wide open system Roy runs. He might do well offensively but it's going to be an unmitigated disaster in the defensive zone.
The funny thing is I joked about a month ago about Gelinas playing in the Q when Roy coached there and trying to sucker him into taking him.
You put far too much stock in his shooting metrics while ignoring the sheltered, low competition minutes he plays and the blooper reel worth of mistakes he makes.
We're lucky we got a 3rd for him at all.
It's not the metrics where I get my opinion from. It's the eyetest. Without even looking at the metrics I could have told you Gelinas was actually better than what you guys think. The metrics only confirmed my opinion.
In heavily sheltered minutes.
Any time he was in a reasonably tough defensive situation, he always panicked, struggled, or made a bone-headed mistake.
Nothing you look at number-wise will be able to show that.
You won't see me disagree with any of this. The question is, why is playing sheltered minutes a negative? That's the role of bottom pairing defensemen.
If you think he's a bottom pairing defenseman, why do you always argue that he is so good and better than Devils fans give him credit for?