Brother, I use stats that come from NHL.com. Don't accuse me of making stuff up if you're too dumb to figure out how to read. Kotkaniemi's starting to get things going again, he couldn't buy a goal for a while, but he's going well and is still worth every penny of that deal. But you know, you spread your fictional narrative because you're clueless.

dude? leafs decline. Knies isnt tradeable and if he was u guys would be giving us a 1st rounder plus other picks to move out ur bad players

That's a lot of koolaid in one post. Even Brind'Amour doesn't think KK is that good - his 5v5 TOI/GP is 11th among Hurricanes forwards! That's 4th line material, for those keeping track at home. And when he's on the ice, the Canes allow more corsi, shots, goals, expected goals, scoring chances and high danger corsi. That's not the hallmark of "good defensively". Oh, and he gets 67% OZS!! That tells me two things: 1) the coaches don't trust him defensively, and 2) the fact that he allows more of everything while rarely starting in the D-zone proves them right. Appalling.

His defensive analytics are in the trash this season. The only reason his defensive metrics were good last season is because he was extremely sheltered. This season, while still sheltered, his numbers suck. Looking like last season was an outlier.

You say you use stats that come from NHL.com ... then you proceed with being wrong about the stats that do come from NHL.com. You are just a liar.

For example. here's what NHL.com says about Kotkaniemi's points in the last 6 games.


How did you come up with the site telling you 4 other than it being a bold faced lie? It was the same for Staal's ice time.