CatchyTune
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I dont need to look at charts that look like weather forecasts. Prove Letang is better.
Value of: Letang to Habs
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I dont need to look at charts that look like weather forecasts. Prove Letang is better.
Empoleon8771
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"I don't want to look at the stats that show Letang is better than Jones".
Turin
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Letang is consistently more productive, a better skater despite being 8 years older, puts up better defensive results, has won Cups, has way better hair.
CatchyTune
JOHN TAVARES IS A MAPLE LEAF
didnt even mention Letang, just a Jones heat chart. Jones is obviously one of the best dmen in the league, and his shiny new contract backs that up. i wouldnt give Letang that money.
Empoleon8771
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How about these then:
Jones' projected WAR is so low because he had a ghastly bad season last year, but even if you take out that year, Letang is still comfortably better.
Pens can’t trade Letang. If they do it’s a full rebuild and we may as well trade crosby too
K Fleur
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Letang is one of the most underrated and under appreciated defenseman I can ever remember watching.
This website hasn’t managed to have an accurate take on him in his entire career so this thread is no surprise.
This website hasn’t managed to have an accurate take on him in his entire career so this thread is no surprise.
CatchyTune
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...So according to that Jones is a replacement level player
I know what Letang is, he is a good #1D in his own regard, but I dont think I can name 5 dmen I would take over Jones
Empoleon8771
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...So according to that Jones is a replacement level player
I know what Letang is, he is a good #1D in his own regard, but I dont think I can name 5 dmen I would take over Jones
That's just you wildly overrating Jones then.
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...So according to that Jones is a replacement level player
I know what Letang is, he is a good #1D in his own regard, but I dont think I can name 5 dmen I would take over Jones
defensemen I would take over Jones with his new deal:
Hedman, Makar, Fox, Heiskanen, Letang, Ekblad, Doughty, Hughes, Pietrangelo, Theodore, Hamilton, Klingberg, Carlson, Josi, Petry, Spurgeon.. the list may continue.
CatchyTune
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Turin
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...must not be a fan of the contract?
No I just don’t see a big guy carrying the puck in a straight line and think he must be elite.
CatchyTune
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Thats what draws me to him yes. Thats also what Chicago saw to warrant trading for/signing him. If you dont see him as elite idk what so say
This website hasn’t managed to have an accurate take on any Penguins player during the Crosby era so what gets said on the main boards comes as no surprise.
K Fleur
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The best is any Pens winger. They suck and are just a product of Crosby on the trade board but they’re great when it comes time to crap on Crosby’s legacy on the NHL talk board.
He's 34, often injured, a NMC and a year left.
Not exactly the best trade candidate. I don't see anyone spending quality assets right now.
Maybe if he's healthy at the deadline and Pittsburgh sucks? Probably a late 1st would do it as a rental.
Not exactly the best trade candidate. I don't see anyone spending quality assets right now.
Maybe if he's healthy at the deadline and Pittsburgh sucks? Probably a late 1st would do it as a rental.
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Empoleon8771
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Ristolainen just went for pick #13, a 2nd and an okay bottom pair D, yet Letang would only go for a late 1st as a rental? What?
This makes absolutely no sense, the Habs are tanking and do not want Letang at all who would hurt our lottery odds, and Pens are in the last 1-3 years of their contending window and need all the help they can get, age irrelevant.
He'll be a rental and 35 y old.
Who was the last 35 y old rental that brought more than that?
Empoleon8771
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Who was the last 35 year old rental that was as good as Letang?
That's just a bizarre claim considering what Ristolainen, who is also a rental, went for. Ristolainen is a massively inferior player to Letang too.
Everyone here is forgetting one thing or never knew ...Letang and burkle are extremely good friends outside of hockey . In fact burkle has said letang is his best friend inside the hockey world . He isnt going anywhere, right or wrong until pens management changes. Sadly this is what it is and will handcuff the pens for the next few seasons. GM Rutherford wanted to trade letang and had a deal on the table nut was squashed, hence his departure. Now to the point, he would be a good addition to the habs and in a different world the return wouldn't have to be extraordinary. A bottom 6 forward, a top 4 D and a pick would likely grt it done.
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Toronto paid a 1st and a 4th for Nick Foligno, who is the same age as Letang, and a vastly inferior player.
