Yea, I cant filter what I'm looking at there by QoC but your probably right that he's out there against the better players with McDavid but the Ozone starts being that high is a little troubling.
Edmonton spread out hard minutes a lot more evenly than Toronto did though so even though Larssons QoC was tops on the team for RHD, it was virtually identical to Zaitsevs.
Larsson does have the better track record though but who knows? They might be looking to blow things up a bit and Brown was one the best defensive forwards on the Leafs and one of the best defensive 3rd/4th liners in the league.
Stranger things have happened....
They may want to put the whole Hall for Larsson thing behind them and Larsson hasn't been great the last couple of years so they could be amenable to moving him
I watched a fair bit of Edmonton and I didn't love the McDavid unit playing against the other team's best players, offensively they looked ok but defensively it did get pretty exciting at times and nobody looked great in there own end including Larsson
If I was them I'd be begging for Brown and Zaitsev would arguably be there best defensive RD I just think better offers than that would come in for Larsson
He's looked on much more favorably than Zaitsev, it's debatable if he should be but I think it will matter when offers come in for him