So Poulin said the Leafs should trade Sandin for a top 4 D. That pretty much sums up Poulin
I forgot about this shots quote he said when he was here.Hes a clown who should be banned from tv
So Poulin said the Leafs should trade Sandin for a top 4 D. That pretty much sums up Poulin
Among 240 D in the NHL who have played at least 100 5v5 minutes this season - Pts/60:
1) Sandin - 2.31
2) Carlson - 2.163
32) Barrie - 1.22
33) Rielly - 1.19
39) Holl - 1.17
Among 240 D in the NHL who have played at least 100 5v5 minutes this season - GA/60:
8) Sandin - 1.39
69) Ceci - 2.15
162) Dermott - 2.72
168) Holl - 2.76
176) Rielly -2.79
Now, obviously those numbers are not going to hold, but he has been consistently dangerous offensively throughout and consistently responsible defensively (on a team where few other players are). This shouldn't have been a shock to anyone. He will be at a top-4 D level quickly - despite how much Keefe and Dubas want to ease him in. While he is not the strongest, or fastest or most experienced D on the team, he is probably the smartest.
Yet, despite this fanbase (like every fanbase) overexaggerating the abilities and potential of all their prospects, over the last several weeks when a number of people on this forum made up lineups for next year at best he was placed on the third pairing (at best). And back when camp started almost no one thought he was a serious candidate to make the team - even though scouts and the Leafs' players knew that he was. This has been due to a consistent campaign by a small number of posters on here who have repeatedly said that he is bad defensively and was not ready.
"Now, obviously those numbers are not going to hold..."
*posts anyways*
so what? Clearly it's meant to describe how his play has been so far, not a proclamation that Sandin will be the best defenseman in the league now"Now, obviously those numbers are not going to hold..."
*posts anyways*
Does Poulin not realize that Sandin is already a defenseman?So Poulin said the Leafs should trade Sandin for a top 4 D. That pretty much sums up Poulin
He says the weirdest things.Does Poulin not realize that Sandin is already a defenseman?
At least Brendan Shanhan made the right decision when he fired him.He says the weirdest things.
Another NHL team hasn't and probably will never hire him again.At least Brendan Shanhan made the right decision when he fired him.
so what? Clearly it's meant to describe how his play has been so far, not a proclamation that Sandin will be the best defenseman in the league now
That's why he's working at TSN.Another NHL team hasn't and probably will never hire him again.
Yikes that makes Burke look bad.That's why he's working at TSN.
I'm just reading about him and after his NHL career was finished he went onto be the coach at Notre Dame, than Brian Burke hired him as Vice-President of Hockey Operations in July 2009. So he had no previous experience in NHL management before working with the Maple Leafs.
That breakdown of their first goal was ridiculous. He emphatically answers yes, and then goes on to describe the sequence in a way that makes it clear that it was Marner and Matthews that screwed up, with Holl just doing a pinch like he's supposed to.He says the weirdest things.
Poulin wasn't in a high-enough position to even be in the discussion. I mean, the regimes he was part of were terrible, but there is a long-list of GM's ahead of him. Although, not sure how much of the Ballard era you can hold against GM's.Reminds me of 'our' Poulin. The guy was one of the worst executives in Maple Leafs history, which is an impressive feat.