Hes a purely offensive player who has five goals halfway through the year while playing with the teams top players.
I don't have much of an opinion of him. One way or another but pretty easy to see why he gets "hate."
His 15 ES points is actually just barely ahead of granlund, and we were just talking about how bad granlund's production is.
Baertschi put up a 30pt ES pace last year as well, and although he wasn't playing with the Sedins like Goldobin is playing with Pettersson, he was playing with Boeser and Pettersson draws some pretty heavy defensive matchups himself. Also honestly like half of the robberies at the hands of opposing goaltenders this year that I can remember have come right out of Goldobin's pocket.
Is it really surprising that a player's point totals are heavily weighted towards assists when playing with Pettersson and Boeser?
He's a 23 year old who has continued to improve throughout his career. He's not an all-star, but he's clearly solid prospect who is not well into bust territory. He's not great, but he's not awful. He's fine as it is now, and he's young enough that he could very well improve.
I don't mind sitting young players for games here and there, I'm a big fan of rotating the majority of the lineup in and out to get them rest days anyway, but this board acts like he's trash to be cast off and IMO it's bizarre because it's not even close.
Also, isn't he a natural RW? I know some players play their off wing, but hasn't he been playing there to accommodate are lack of LW depth? Surely that hurts his defensive play if it's the case.
