pi314
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Nice work! JR doesn’t usually sign players before the deadline but I can see why he made an exception
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Nice work! JR doesn’t usually sign players before the deadline but I can see why he made an exception
7.2% of the cap hit. And then an even lower percentage. Probably. Depending on the impending lockout.
Currently has 33 of 330 team points THIS YEAR. So 10% of team scoring. He would already be outpacing his salary cap cost, lol. Right?
I am guessing that he is questioning the sustainability of his production.
Leafs fan, congrats on the deal, it's solid af, I guess you could argue due to Crosby he should get less, but how much less 200k? 300k? Meh who cares? Even if that's the case, overpaying young players ever so slightly has seldom hurt teams, it's almost always over the hill vets that get teams in trouble and if you're in trouble because of a 3-500k overpayment for a youngster, trust me, that's not the trouble you were in.
There are a number of angles to look at it from, ya he plays with Crosby, but it isn’t a pair like Neal-Malkin where one was a complete leech.
Guentzel makes Crosby better and vice versa. Crosby only ever had this type of relationship with Hossa and that lasted only a couple months. Guys like Dupuis and Kunitz were beneficiaries of Crosby’s skill, but they rarely set him up for goals.
Guentzel and Crosby just have that mind meld going on, where they find each other all over the rink and constantly feed each other beautiful looks on net.
Also keep in mind Guentzel doesn’t get top PP time to produce points. He’s extremely skilled at tipping pucks and finding loose garbage, so I can imagine he would benefit greatly from playing the Hornqvist role on the PP full time, but he gets the PP leftovers for obvious reasons.
McCurdy throwing some shade on the signing.
The Hockey News said:But the contract signing also comes at a time when it appears we’re starting to get a handle on what kind of contributions Guentzel can make as a top-six forward... producing like a top-flight winger alongside an all-world talent is a skill in itself, and Guentzel has shown he has the skillset to flourish on Crosby’s wing.
My question was more so what he was basing his player analysis on, because not including production seems like a pretty damn big thing to ignore (if he's not including it). At least from reading his tweet, he seems to acknowledge that Guentzel is a gifted goal scorer, but he seems to not want to pay him what he got because his shot and penalty differentials aren't good enough. That seems super flawed to me and just seems like a problem of someone over-emphasizing advanced stats. There are no individual advanced stats that can truly show a player's worth alone, so to try to say what a player deserves based on their shot differentials seems pretty foolish to me.