please stop only using points to evaluate players

Équipe: 2023-24 Canadiens de Montréal

Date de création initiale: 19 nov. 2023

Publié: 19 nov. 2023

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Jackets fans not realizing that Laine gets paid 8,3m for another 3 years. Has worse injury issues and is a defensive liability. If Anderson is a cap dump, then so it Laine.

Laine had 1 good season which was last year in overall 5v5 production. Take the 5 past seasons and Anderson have been better 5v5 overall. Laine is a powerplay merchant.

Now lets count the money owed. Anderson has 23m owed left (no signing bonus) in 4 years. Laine has 25m owed (4m in signing bonus) for 3 years left. So any deal involving the 2, Columbus saves money while not having to pay a signing bonus and gets a player for an extra year.

I havent even mentioned that Anderson actually forechecks, blocks shots, hits and has more takeaways than giveaways. This would also be the 2nd time Laine would be traded over "being lazy". Dude is 6'5 and Anderson has more hits this season than Laine's highest hit total in Columbus

Now this season, Anderson is just getting super unlucky. He has 5.4 expected goals and scored none of them. Laine has 1.5 and scored 2. Laine hasnt taken a High Danger shot yet and only has 2 medium shot danger attempts. Anderson has 6 high danger and 17 medium danger. And if you counter into shooting talent, Laine has score 0.1 goals more than expected and Anderson has scored 5.3 less goals than expected

So the anti anderson folks can call him a cap dump and whatnot, Laine is not much better if not worse. Points arent everything when evaluating players

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