Quoting: JmoneyTalk
Yea that's my bad, I knew I was going to overlook a player somewhere. Dadanov over Alex for sure. Chabot I disagree. I think hes a bit over rated. I know he's good and on a better team his numbers would be way better. But one 55 point season and then with the regression this past season while being a minus D imo has him out of the top 5. Could definitely move up a few spots but I'm not convinced he's worth his 8 mil contract. Also I am an Oilers fan. I did troll the flames here but i think they got worse overall this year while other teams made improvements, therefore I can't see them as a top 3 lock, I genuinely think there a 4th 5th team if everything works out for everyone but they could get lucky and slip into the top 3.
He still had 39 points (with a career low shooting percentage) on the 2nd worst team in the league. He averages 26 minutes per night (highest in the league), including nearly two full games worth of 5v5 total TOI over 2nd place. Ottawa had a -48 goal differential, so it makes sense most of the team would be minus, particularly the guy playing nearly half the game and taking all the hard matchups, and he still managed to have a positive CF% at 5v5 (something only 5 other Sens with more than 20 games played accomplished, +4 corsi rel, indicating he was one of the team's better players, as expected). If Ottawa was a contender and he actually had skilled offensive guys to pass to, he'd be a consistent 50-60 point D and considered top 10 in the league. When the Sens are good again in 2 or 3 years I'd expect him to be in the running for the Norris for a majority of the following decade. His 8mil contract is a steal.
As for the Flames, how exactly did they get worse? They literally added the 4th best goalie in the league. Brodie to Tanev is a downgrade, and losing Hamonic kind of hurts (but not too much, he wasn't exactly stellar this year), but with Andersson and Hanifin continuing to develop and Valimaki finally being healthy (plus adding Nesterov for depth, who was one of the better D in the KHL this year) I think their D is still pretty solid, and while they didn't make any major changes up front, they added some high potential depth guys in Leivo and Simon, while replacing a PKer with the Nordstrom signing. I'd consider them a net winner this off-season. I also don't think their entire forward corps will have a career worst year again lmao. Comparing that to teams like Vancouver (losing Tanev, Stecher, and Fantenberg for Schmidt is basically moot, lost Toffoli, Leivo, and Markstrom for Holtby, which is probably 30-40 goals just gone, and a significant downgrade in net) or Edmonton (had defensive woes and added Barrie, notably terrible at defense, lost Klefbom for a while, and didn't address goaltending. Definitely better up front with the Turris/Kahun/Puljujarvi adds, but offense was never the struggle) I'd say Calgary was one of the teams that addressed a weakness and improved overall, and it's reasonable to expect the offense to bounce back, it's very unlikely that every single guy stays stagnant now that they've had a down season.
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