He's our best LEFT wing.Johnsson is a top 3 player?
What did you mean by that? Obviously that's not what you meant.
For his position, he is our best. If you can't keep your best LW, your team is doomed.
I would not hesitate to trade him for a top 4 RHD like Pesce while his value is high.
Yes, promoting players when they thrive in lesser roles is pretty standard. The idea is to have your best players play as much as possibleAgreed.
He's lighting it up in his current role, so apparently the wise thing to do is change his role.
Yet Johnnson is scoring playing on the 4th line making us harder to play against. Why would we want to change that. It Marleau has looked fine since the break can not say the same for Mathews at all.
Until he has two bad games. Then classic shaner comment.... Get this guy the f*** outta here
it's not like he looked bad when he actually got an opportunity to move up either. he looked better than Hyman on the Tavares line. this is quite honestly one of Babcock's more questionable decisions
Gotta keep that production down for that contract, right?!
Top 3 Top 6 Bottom six are which lines you play on.No, our top 3 players are 3 of Matthews, Tavares, Marner and Rielly.
Who are you trying to fool here?
hopefully. But give it some time because this happens whenever a random 3rd/4th liner gets a few goals thanks to pucks bouncing their way. The fans start predicting stardom and the naysayers get called fools and then reality slowly sets in. Johnsson's has like 15 goals and I can't remember a single one that was impressive. Just normal nhl wristers and a handful of pucks bouncing his way. Maybe the game he had a hat-trick where he sent a couple shots along the ice 5 hole was a sign of something but odds are we would have seen more signs of it by now. All I've seen is a guy with no real standout skills. He doesn't' carry the puck particularly well doesn't pass well at all and has poor decision making which is the reason the Leafs coaching staff are uncomfortable putting him beside their star players who think the game on a higher level. He might still moe up but that's more testament to how weak the Leafs are at left wing. (and off topic but it's same thing with kapanen only worse. He is a fine player with obvious stand-out skills but he is downright scatterbrained on the ice. Winging pucks around the boards thoughtlessly or making several phantom passes this season already to leafs who aren't actually there. And that game he got a few 2 on 1s right in row was pretty telling. But unlike Johnsson he is an elite puck carrier who can create space to stop and make a normal nhl pass to trailers or whoever. Which this forum will likely take to be superior hokey sense and passing ability. Meanwhile any star players on his line don't really know what he's thinking and find it tough playing with him just like Matthews did)
Until he has two bad games. Then classic shaner comment.... Get this guy the **** outta here
