I think he’s 2nd pairing on a lot of teams. I’d be willing to bet it’s about 20 teams.
Player Discussion Dylan DeMelo
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FolignoQuantumLeap
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He's 3rd in ice time because of his special teams usage though. His even strength usage is mostly sheltered with Borowiecki. He's starting to play more with Chabot, which is a better option than Zaitsev. No competitive team would have Demelo on their PP or heavily used on the PK.
#4 guys around the league by ice time
Zadorov
Connor Murphy/Seabrook
David Savard
Justin Faulk
Carlo
Mete
Tanev
Gudas
Jason Demers
Greene
Del Zotto
Brodie
Gostisbehere
McNabb
Edmundson
Toews
Heinola/Beaulieu/Niku
Hutton
Cernak
Barrie
Bear
Yandle
Pettersson
Fabbro
DeAngelo
Nemeth
Dahlin
Dillon
Sekera
Brodin
Demelo is better than maybe 4 of those guys. And most of the guys on that list are orders of magnitude better. He's a 6/7 guy on any average NHL team.
toxic poster
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people here forget that demelo didn't even get a QO offer from SJ the offseason that we traded for him. he was a throw in to get a contract off the books for SJ. he's improved since his time there but he's nothing more than a third pairing guy on a good team.
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FolignoQuantumLeap
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If you put Barrie as the 4 in TO he’s behind Ceci. Besides Barrie might be the biggest train wreck defensively I have seen in over a decade. He is so bad.
Barrie is clearly not being used properly in Toronto. Valuing DeMelo over him is hilarious
The question was who is a better # 4 D. The answer is Demelo because Barrie is a PP specialist who is a HUGE liability defending zone entries and in-zone. You should watch Barrie play, he has been awful for years.
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Sure. They're different players and in trade value Barrie clearly will have higher value but Demelo is a servicable 4/5. There's a few teams he is a 3 (like us) and some he's a 5. I'm not sure of any teams in the league where he would actually end up a #7 with his current performance. I could be wrong but I think a lot of teams around the league would view a guy like him quite favorably.
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AchtzehnBaby
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Demelo is a bottom pairing guy. He should never be in a teams top 4, and if he is, your team is not going anywhere.
Ottawa isn’t going anywhere, so they can afford to have him play top 4 minutes. Any team that has aspirations of playing in the spring will have him slotted on a bottom pairing.
Ottawa isn’t going anywhere, so they can afford to have him play top 4 minutes. Any team that has aspirations of playing in the spring will have him slotted on a bottom pairing.
FolignoQuantumLeap
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According to Wayne Scanlan. Honestly, I don't know how anyone could watch this team and not conclude that Pageau is the team's best defensive player. That seems painfully obvious.
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I'm reporting this post to the mods for being too on point and ridiculously accurate.
That's what that button is for, right? To recognize great posts?
Micklebot
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Might have only been including dmen in that category, in which case, there is an argument to be made that DeMelo has been our best defensive Dmen.
AchtzehnBaby
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Scanlan is an idiot! He said "Jean-Gabriel Pageau is MVP" in that same article!
Micklebot
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It's actually hilarious how Toronto hasn't even tried Barrie on their first powerplay unit when their powerplay has been AWFUL. I thought that was the whole reason to get him.
