Romanov isn't a PP guy - he plays the game similar to Adam Pelech. He can drive offense and he has a good impact on the rate his team scores goals. Points are a terrible way to evaluate offensive impact

Here's how he compares to OEL over the last 3 years.


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Yeah they are, you undervalue them as assets

Yeah I’m fairly sarcastic lol. I thought all the LOL’s made it more obvious over text. Sometimes I throw in a couple of emoji’s too to mix it up.

I never said that driving offense and putting up points were one in the same, but there has to be a decent amount of correlation. I'm not sure I see that with Romanov

Not for Barzal.

Ur comparing a veteran to a 22 year old tbh. Harder to have accurate numbers when it comes to younger players cause they r developing.

Okay, cool

If Barzal put up better offensive numbers in recent years, I'd probably say different, but he hasn't

As I said, would re-evaluate after the end of the season. The Jacket's future cap situation and futures for both Johnson and Ceulemans should be more projectable then. The trade would likely be after the 2023 draft if it were to happen so I didn't really factor in that 1st, just Petey.

I dunno, I mean Montreal already gave up on Romanov. I think we can agree Kent Hughes is a pretty smart guy

Romanov was better than 65% of defenseman last season at setting up high danger scoring chances. When you play on a bad team that can't finish and also get no PP time, its hard to put up a lot of points.

Pelech doesn't put up a lot of points and hes great at driving offense.

You are blaming the player for the situation. And his recent playoff success more than makes up for his regular season numbers imo.

Romanov moved him to get Dach

Maybe I'm blaming the player for not making more of the situation he was put in

So the Romanov acquisition is all about Montreal wanting to get Dach?

quality of teammates affects production more than anything else. He's one of the best playmakers in the game on a team with a lack of finishing talent. If he was on almost any other team he'd put up 85-90 pts.

I mean, it will be great to see Romanov finally break out, but he's still in the camp of I'll believe it when I see it for me

Not a fan of what Montreal did at the draft

You sound very confident in that assessment

it was, MTL was asking the isles for Beauvillier and multiple picks for Romanov earlier in the offseason. Once CHI said they wanted a top 15 pick they got desperate.

So you don't like Kent Hughes? You might be in the minority there

Okay, that's interesting

wow this went off the rails pretty fast in an hour


personally i would only accept this deal if jason Dickinson and Tucker Poolman get thrown in

You know I have actually been making popcorn this entire time?

I mean its not really a hot take. Barzal can't control another forwards S%. He had a 98 PDO last season, anything under 100 is considered unlucky. He drives offense and sets up his teammates at an elite level, if he had a top line caliber player on his line that would lead to more production