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Previous Thread: Confirmed with Link: - Canucks sign D Tyler Myers to 5-Year, $30m Deal ($6m AAV)
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Previous Thread: Confirmed with Link: - Canucks sign D Tyler Myers to 5-Year, $30m Deal ($6m AAV)
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There are also points in Myers performance where he has operated as a top pairing dman. Doesn't mean he's a top pairing guy.
If he's been given top 4 minutes his entire career, has posted counting stats of a clear cut top 4 dman, and would undoubtedly by a top 4 dman on the majority of teams in the NHL currently, isn't that a solid case for him being a top 4 dman?
It's more of a semantics argument than anything. If 2 people don't agree on what constitutes being considered a top 4 dman, they won't come to agreement on who ends up on that list. So until you clearly lay out the threshold one needs to hit to be considered such a player, you're likely going to continue spinning your wheels.
What is the benchmark for being a top 4 dman?
I'm excited to have Myers, he's going to help make our team better than it was.
Lots of debate about what he is, to me he's probably a #4D who can bring some extra offense. There's arguments he's been less at times, and arguments he's been fine as a top 4. At times in Winnipeg there was both from what I saw. As was the case in Buffalo before. I have that understanding going in, and I'll reserve further judgment beyond that & see how he fits in here.
I'm not expecting this contract to ever be a bargain, he's overpaid plain & simple, that is what it is (which is part of the nature of a rebuilding team) but he adds support our young core needs. Status-quo wasn't working, they needed to add a defenseman & after a Barrie trade couldn't be made the weren't an abundance of options that fit what we needed.
It's really quite unbelievable. Whether it's Hutton or Gaunce, or Richardson or Biega or Stanton or whatever, we have had some decent depth pieces that get treated like garbage, and the massive overpayments to replacement or near replacement level players like Sbisa, Guds, Eriksson, Myers Beagle, Sutter is truly brutal.
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