Why are you pointing specifically at his 5v5 scoring to try and say it’s a bad contract? I really don’t understand what you’re going for. He scores better 5v5 than Armia. Only makes $1m more. Are you going to call out Armia’s extension too?
No you won’t. You’ll say “well Armia provides defence and penalty killing” which serves your argument. Let’s ignore PP points for some reason.
Hoffman scored 29 goals a year ago. 35 the year before that. I’m sure he’s falling off a cliff all of a sudden.
Ok, lets get a few things straight here:
1) I was talking about his contract being bad relative to Gallagher's. In reference to an Athletic article I didn't write. I actually don't hate Hoffman's contract (as I've said elsewhere on here), but I think he's overpaid for what he brings. And that's not really hot take either.
2) I was talking about 5v5 production, not scoring. You were talking about scoring and was expanding on/challenging your comments.
3) I wasn't bringing up anything more complicated than that because I didn't want to get into the whole "advanced stat" debate, because it would derail things even more. I could say that Hoffman has a long history of getting outchanced and outscored when he's on the ice relative to competition.
4) If you want to argue against yourself, then do it. But don't put words in my mouth. For the record, I'm not going to argue that Armia's contract is good, just less bad than Hoffman's. For a few reasons:
a) He's got a similar effect on the PK that Hoffman has on the PP.
b) He's younger.
c) He's cheaper.