Who will the fans turn on this year on your team? For the leafs I’m going to guess ceci. Leaf fans love to bash defensemen and now that gardiner and zaitsev are gone, ceci will probably get the honour
If he's around for another whirl, Vlad Sobotka is pretty much the bane of all existence from casual fans to stat guys to diehards, young and old alike. He's not well liked.
Justin Braun is the most likely candidate for the Flyers. Most fans feel they overpaid for him (2nd and 3rd) and at his age and play style, there's a decent chance he is the least effective defensemen on the team.
I think we stay with Turris for the Preds. It's not entirely his fault. He is what he is. He's got some skills and in the right situation can probably score 50-60 pts. Last year he struggled with injuries and hasn't really found linemates he meshes well with yet in Nashville. And he does need his linemates to carry some of the load for him. But now that we have Duchene the odds of Turris finding a spot where he's able to produce in our lineup get dicey. One of them could switch to wing. I don't think Duchene wants to. And I don't think Turris would be a very good winger. If he's on a lower line and doesn't get PP time he could be looking at an underwhelming statistical season again - this time without the valid injury excuse. In which case we'll look even more askance at his $6M contract. He just doesn't do enough other things in the game to make up for lowered production.
Not unless he sits out the year, he could get paid too much and underperform his contract and he'll still be too much of a good Canadian boy to get much heat. On the other hand, Nylander could get 70 points and half the fanbase will still hate him for not being Wendel Clarke.
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