LMAO relax tough guy, just because nobody wants Leafs garbage you don't need to get so butt hurt, Zaitsev had one good productive year where Mike Babcock and his stupid reason to not play Rielly on the powerplay that year. Zaitsev as a rookie was terrible even strength and compiled a lot of powerplay points and played a premium position RHD and got a 7 year deal based on PP points. He is only useful when he plays in a sheltered role and that's how Babcock will continue to deploy him.

Except that this year in the playoffs he played anything but a sheltered role. He and Muzzin ate tough minutes and he played just fine.

Zaitsev does not play a sheltered role, defensive zone starts, penalty kills, last minute lead protecting and top line assignments is not sheltered. Zaitsev was used like a rented mule.

Muzzin covers up a lot of his mistakes, if you play him with someone else he looks awful.

Playing with Muzzin helps a lot,

Pretty sure you didn't watch any of the playoffs, especially considering you thought he was playing sheltered minutes in the first place.

Did you watch? Muzzin was brutal, zaitsev saved his ass.

Again, Muzzin was arguably the Leafs best dman against the Bruins.

I think Spurgeon is significantly better than Muzzin. Assuming we could re-sign him I'm comfortable with the deal.

Got no problem paying less though!

VAN decline and laugh, they don't need a overpaid pylon on the backend.

Zaitsev is not a top 4 dman, he can't play on the powerplay. I don't understand your point? Zaitsev needs to play sheltered minutes and has no hockey iq.