Quoting: Lochness1202
One player does not make a team and you know that…chychrun is going to get a 1st/ top prospect and player yet the coyotes suck. Does chychrun suck too??
I think he's got a lot of talent but he's definitely overrated right now. He's not part of the answer in Arizona why would he be the answer elsewhere? But this is how this site works. Everyone is bias but tell themselves they aren't. So how people see stuff on here is already flawed big time. On top of that 60-75% of this site is populated by people who hate the leafs as much or more than they hate their own team. Which makes matters much worse. Then there is the mob think that influences everything as well. For example, it's still a common accepted truth that TO's defence sucks, bottom half of the league for sure. That despite them being 3rd overall in goals against per game.
So this is why you have the majority of people on here saying ridiculous stuff all the time. Like Romanov is a legit top 4 defenceman. He's a decent young player on a downright terrible team, he's not some saviour, if he was the results would be better. He has talent and some upside but hasn't proven much at all. If he was on a better team, he may not even be in the lineup because better teams have better players.
This is why Sandin and Liljegren are only playing 3rd pair minutes or rotating in and out. Most other teams don't have guys like Rielly, Muzzin, Brodie ahead of their young guys. Who does Montreal have? Chiarot? He likely wouldn't make the Leafs unless Keefe wanted a big slow PK guy on the 3rd pair. I know you'll go off saying Holl is a 7th defenceman and yes he did struggle for a bit there but he's rebounded and has played much better as of late. If Holl was a 7th defenceman on any other team, why is TO a top 3 team defensively? That notion just doesn't balance with the results.
Just as saying Romanov is a legit top 4 defender on any team is ridiculous. The results show something completely different. But as I mentioned, reality doesn't matter much here. Just mob think and bias. So hab fans will continue to say Romanov is an all-star and worth insane prices because they like him a lot....mainly because there is nothing else to like on their team right now.