Are you here to present an argument that Kevin Hayes is a better player than Mikael Granlund?
Because I would be very interested in seeing it.
No I don’t see the point in presenting an argument about anything, think there is way too many pissing matches at this section of hfboards.
To be honest, I think it’s very pointless to compare Hayes with Granlund. Hayes is a — much — stronger player at carrying a line in the NHL. Granlund has insane offensive instincts, but of course not the 2-way game of many better players in this league. They are very different players.
Hence why I made that comment. I mean GMs going after Hayes do it to fill a hole in the lineup that is seen as being very hard to fill. To say without further comment that Granlund is easily better than Hayes is way to much based on pure stats looking, and you can’t really have much knowledge of the two players to come to that conclusion.
So in short, my point is not that Hayes is a better player than Granlund, if Granlund gets back to form this year he will get paid and 7m per is certainly a possibility. But there is easily teams out there who Hayes holds more value for, and vice versa.