Confirmed with Link: Per Friedman, Leafs and Zaitsev have agreed to move on, will find trade for him

[Cor]

Who cares about numbers
Watch this man play
I did

So you watched him beside Jake Muzzin, where he was actually fairly effective?

 

[Shanty]

So you watched him beside Jake Muzzin, where he was actually fairly effective?

I still don't understand the dividing line on this. Looking at the numbers just reinforces what I see when I watch him play.

He's decent at shutting down rushes and the cycle, can't make an outlet pass, and doesn't do much in the o-zone.

 

[SprDaVE]

So you watched him beside Jake Muzzin, where he was actually fairly effective?

That speaks volume to Muzzins ability and less about Zaitsev I would say.

Muzzin has a long track record of having positive influence as a good defenseman where when he's on the ice, he's not getting filled in. Zaitsev is the bi-polar opposite.

Maybe he figures it out somewhere else. He certainly hasn't with the Leafs though.