Quoting: joshelkin
In fairness I don't think Pageau gets many offensive zone starts 5v5. And even with that he is the 4th highest scoring forward (excluding Horvat) on the team and 5th on the team in goals. Tied for 1st in power play goals with Nelson and Dobson. Highly effective in the defensive zone in addition to the obvious being key faceoff guy/PKer etc.
I have bad news if you're expecting him to get traded. Really don't see that happening. Isles will continue to dominate the dots with him and Horvat
75% of Pageau’s shifts are either on the fly, in the offensive zone or in the neutral zone. Pageau is deployed as a top line center, obviously he’s going to rank high on pts compared to the rest of the team. How do you think 1 5v5 goal is acceptable? If this were Wahlstrom, barzal, a guy like eberle etc..you’d be adding picks for them to be traded.
Pageau is not highly effective in the defensive zone. They give up more goals with him on the ice.
I am not expecting Pageau to be traded, Lou has an ego and he won’t trade any player he gave up a 1st for. It’s just sad there are different standards held for different players. Pageau can have 1 5v5 goal the entire season, but let’s keep him at 5 mill per. Dobson produces points at an elite rate but because he struggled defensively he should be traded. Interesting
Pageau is a good 3C, worth around 2.5-3 mill per. Arguing he’s worth 5 mill is simply based on him being a nice guy/signing an autograph or something like that- because it can’t be for on ice play