I'm not expecting a kings ransom anymore, Burns & McDonagh set the market

Hearing #Habs are trading Jeff Petry and Ryan Poehling to #pens in exchange for Mike Matheson and a draft pick.@DailyFaceoff

— Frank Seravalli (@frank_seravalli) July 16, 2022

Wait they were actually able to move Mike Matheson

Matheson's advanced analytics are actually pretty good. I'm optimistic with this trade

I could have sworn a Canadiens fan telling me that Petry will get traded for a first

Steal for Pittsburgh, id much rather have Petry than Matheson, Petry may be more expensive but he’s better than Matheson and I don’t like the term on Matheson

Pittsburgh basically went out and was like k

We go from

Dumo-Letang
Pety-Marino
Matheson-Rud

to

Dumo-Letang
Petey-Petry
Smith-Rutta

This is true, but the overarching offense/defense metrics for defensemen use xGF/xGA weighted significantly more heavily than actual GF/GA in Dom’s model. I’m not sure if he also incorporates PDO into his equation though, so it’s possible that even though xGF/xGA is weighted 4x heavier than actual GF/GA, New Jersey’s atrocious goaltending could negatively influence that defense stat by allowing far more actual GA. It is normalized relative to team (although Severson I believe is only New Jersey’s 2nd best defensive defenseman, Siegenthaler was unreal this year) but also relative to average, which probably hurts him. So maybe there’s room for improvement on a better team with a better system. I also think that maybe this stat could be improved by factoring in GSAX to account for goaltender quality, but I don’t know enough about the intricacies of advanced stats to know for sure. I would love to dig into this kinda thing, but I feel like the learning curve to get to the point where I’m actually finding ways to improve the stats that get output would be far too high when I’m not getting paid to do it lol

I like this much better for Pitt

I would have preferred not signing Rutta and going

Dumo-Letang
Petey-Petry
POJ-Marino

The goaltending might have brought those analytics down because from what I saw, Severson looked solid defensively.

After trading Petry and Poehling to Pittsburgh in exchange for Matheson and a pick, we now show the #Habs with $2,348,334 in cap space based on a projected roster of 20 (12F-6D-2G) and 1 player on IR.Unsigned RFA'sachMontembeaultPrimeauhttps://t.co/GiQbJbQSA7

— CapFriendly (@CapFriendly) July 16, 2022

6.1mil offer sheet coming in