Anglesmith
Setting up the play?
It depends to me if we get an offer for him I'd probabky take it. He'd get between 1 and 2 million. 1.5+ is a 2nd round compensation, 1.5-1.1 is 3rd. I don't think a team would give up that for Gally. But I would re-sign him and not let him be a UFA. For a few reasons
1) He's young a lot of fans are talking about how much they love seeing Backlund develop as a young player. Galiardi is 25, Backs is 24. He has a few years to develop more.
2) Not long enough sample size He did change teams and is ajusting to systems still but as the article mentioned he hasn't played on the PP at all. He was playing on the PP with SJ. Hispoint preduction would increase if he played there. He did well with the Sharks. It also could just be an off year.
3) He's had more defensive starts He's been askedto play a more gritty, defensive style. On SJ a team with lots of scoring Galiardi had more offensive starts than he does now with CGY. More defensive starts
4) Players he's played with this year is much worse than SJ Top 5 players he was with SJ, Pavelski, Burns, Thorton, Boyle, Stuart. CGY is Colborne, Stajan, Backlund, Brodie, Wideman. When CGY's competing he would step up easily with injuries or slumps. He doesn't look out of place with top players. With Monahan or McDavidor Jankowski he'd be back at his pace.
5) He's played vs harder competition Gally has had to face the opponents team's top 6 the vast majority of time. He's playing vs top players where as Hudler, Colborne, Monahan etc are playing against joe blow called up from the Chicoutimi Baguetts.
6) He plays a gritty game We need that tupe of play. He hits, blocks shots, wins the little battles and he's one of our best PKers
A few other tnoughts. He leads the league in penalty differantial and the Flames in shot differential. He might be our fastest player in Byron isn't in.
This was outside of that article. A lot more to the article then the PP time. That was one paragraph out of maybe 8
To quote directly from that article that you posted:
[fieldset=Random blog]Galiardi is scoring about 1.13 points per 60 minutes played. Of the 12 "regular" forwards (i.e. everyone who's played in more than ~45% of the games), he sits 10th - only Bouma (1.00) and McGrattan (0.91) are behind him. That doesn't seem to be the fault of where he is starting his shifts (49.5%, 6/12), who he is playing with (7/12), or who he is playing against (7/12).[/fieldset]
So that completely contradicts your points 3 and 5, and also makes me question whether you actually read the article.
Points 2 and 4 are both arguments as to why his points total was inflated on San Jose. I'm not sure what direction your logic is trying to take here, but saying that he's only capable of producing when he's spoon-fed the best possible opportunities is absolutely not a reason to keep him on the team. If he is going to improve as our team improves, can the same not be said about any other player on our team?
Finally, whether or not he plays a gritty game is not something I'm fully decided on. He hits at about the same rate as Matt Stajan and Lee Stempniak. I would say that his physicality is about average. He is a hard worker and a good forechecker, but we can find that in many other players who make better decisions with the puck.
I'm confused by what you mean by "that was one paragraph out of 8." I checked the page again, and there is no link to any other paragraphs or anything. I have to assume that was written to be a standalone piece, and in it, exactly two arguments are made in Galiardi's favour: he isn't given powerplay time, and he draws penalties. I addressed both.
