I do like Larsson, it's not his fault that the GM that traded for him made a really poor decision. I like him and I'd be willing to trade a 2nd rounder for him today, to get him back, but let's serious here, he's a middle pairing guy. I think I'm generous in saying he's a #3 defenseman. Was very happy to have him while he was here, but I'm most happy that we had him on June 30th of 2016, when someone thought enough of him to trade us Taylor Hall for him.
The guy somehow acquired an unfair reputation in Edmonton. I always said that Chiarelli needed to bite the bullet and break up the team a little bit or make some kind of a change there, since the old regime kept going status quo and it wasn't working. I just figured he'd get proper value for Hall and Eberle, which he did not. Hall also developed a false reputation for being this bad defensive player, who refused to backcheck, thanks to some really poor goaltending and other scrub defenders and players in Edmonton. I even saw this stupid argument made when Cory struggled last season, despite the fact that Cory's save percentage when Hall was on the ice was actually higher than his overall save percentage and much higher than some of his on-ice save percentages in Edmonton.
And I'm tired of clearly inferior players getting ranked higher than Hall on some of these rankings.
