I’ll start by saying I do agree, the stars need to produce and injuries shouldn’t be an excuse, but not being able to play defense without Muzzin has been a repeated issue, and Muzzin is fairly injury prone (injured now, injured against the Habs, injured against Columbus). Bringing in a guy like Chiarot wouldn’t be the worst idea for the Leafs to stabilize their bottom pair (might even move one of Chiarot/Muzzin to the right side) and have a guy that can log top 4 minutes in case of an injury. I don’t think he’s worth Robertson+1st or anything crazy, but from a purely “would this be beneficial” standpoint I think that’s definitely something the Leafs should be looking into. That and a better 3C than Kampf, it would be nice if they had someone that doesn’t make you claw your eyes if they have to play in the top 6 and could get some consistent secondary scoring if the big 4 do dry up (Kase was a great pick up, and I love him and Spezza, but you do need another reliable scoring option in the bottom 6 that can be counted on to contribute a couple goals over the course of a 7-game series imo, and I don’t trust Kampf, Mikheyev, or Engvall to be that guy).

Let's play a game of guess who
Im gonna name some stats of a player compared to other players and you have to guess who it is (without searching it up)

Higher points per game than Sebastian Aho
Higher faceoff percentage than Patrice Bergeron
Higher shooting percentage than Alex Ovechkin

3rd one is Kreider

Let's play a game of guess who
Im gonna name some stats of a player compared to other players and you have to guess who it is (without searching it up)

Higher points per game than Sebastian Aho
Higher faceoff percentage than Patrice Bergeron
Higher shooting percentage than Alex Ovechkin

I have a feeling it’s Hughes

It’s not
You should be able to get this
He’s on the Stars

How insane is it in one draft the Stars got Heiskanen, Oettinger and Robertson?

— Brandon Worley (@brandonworley) January 25, 2022

How to set a franchise up.

It covered up our first round draft messes from 2009-2016. From that our best picks to play for us were Gurianov and Faksa, that’s really sad.

Let's play a game of guess who
Im gonna name some stats of a player compared to other players and you have to guess who it is (without searching it up)

Higher points per game than Sebastian Aho
Higher faceoff percentage than Patrice Bergeron
Higher shooting percentage than Alex Ovechkin

Ngl I did check because I thought Bergeron was #1 in FO% this year, and this player literally doesn’t exist. Even if you’re counting guys with almost no FOW (these all have under 20), there’s only 6 guys higher than Bergeron (Jack Drury, Verhaeghe, Guentzel, Kyrou, Matt Luff, and Forsberg) and none of them have higher than Aho’s 1.2 points per game. I saw you said he was on the Stars, and Robertson has the other two but he hasn’t taken a faceoff this year.

The player was Blake Comeau
100% faceoff percentage (Higher than Bergeron's 63%)
50% shooting percentage (Higher than Ovechkin's 15%)
0.17 points per game (Same as Sebastian Aho [NYI] 0.17 points per game)

When checking NHL shooting percentage I noticed Comeau was 2nd on the list so I thought it was pretty funny to manipulate stats

http://www.nhl.com/stats/skaters?reportType=season&seasonFrom=20212022&seasonTo=20212022&gameType=2&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=faceoffWinPct&page=0&pageSize=50

The player was Blake Comeau
100% faceoff percentage (Higher than Bergeron's 63%)
50% shooting percentage (Higher than Ovechkin's 15%)
0.17 points per game (Same as Sebastian Aho [NYI] 0.17 points per game)

When checking NHL shooting percentage I noticed Comeau was 2nd on the list so I thought it was pretty funny to manipulate stats

http://www.nhl.com/stats/skaters?reportType=season&seasonFrom=20212022&seasonTo=20212022&gameType=2&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=faceoffWinPct&page=0&pageSize=50

Lmao the Habs are dreadful

Flames are DESTROYING the blues. 7-1 after 2

When you mentioned Dallas I knew it was Comeau, he was my second guess behind Hughes (you can’t really blame me considering the person asking the question).

Flames are DESTROYING the blues. 7-1 after 2