Where did I say anything about trading anyone?

Barzal was twice the player Krejci was in 2017-18. He might have broken camp as 3C, but would've moved up quickly.


Once again, I said nothing about trading anyone. I don't know why you'd think having better prospects mean you have to trade players, you clearly don't understand how this works. Tampa went out and acquired McDonough (LHD) the year that Sergachev (LHD) established himself behind Hedman (LHD) in the NHL. There's no reason Boston couldn't have run Chara, Krug and Chabot down the left side and sent Grzelcyk back to the AHL.

The year sergachev established himself behind hedman? what? serg had 15m TOI that year with a 70% offensive zone start percentage. Hedman was playing at 25m a night. They brought in Mcdonough because they needed a 2 left dman that actually played solid defense and sergachev wasnt ready for that role. Then you look at 2018-2019 Hedmans toi drops from 25 to 22 and mcdonough logs 22 as well, serg gets a slight uptick to 17. It wasnt until this past year that serg really established himself behind hedman as a solid all around player, mainly because mcdonough was banged up and is now starting to show his age a little bit.

Chabot in 2017-2018 62% o zone start rate. in that same year torey krug 65.2% offensive zone start rate. assuming everything is equal how do you put chabot and krug on the ice in the same situations. They would have had to move krug to play chabot in that role. As opposed to tampa who had a spot sergachev could take and let him grow into his role. chabot isnt getting offensive starts with krug here and he isnt getting pp time with krug here so why force a player into a bottom pairing role when the team didnt need him there?

to address trading... you dont pay a guy 7.25m to be your 3c or play him out of position. you either play barzal out of position or you trade krejci.