Quoting: Bcarlo25
ya, that's all kind of ridiculous.
First off, lets not make it out like that 16 point season was a full season. that was one of the shortened years. was it 54 games? Still, 16 is bad, and he was ABSOLUTELY negative value. Everyone in boston acknowledged that the contract looked really bad for what appeared to be a defensive bottom six center. He turned his game around considerably from an offensive perspective, and honestly I still think a lot of teams would be pretty wary of that contract.
On the other side of the coin, Anderson doesn't have an outlier down season, he's been consistently underperforming his contract ever since setting foot in montreal. high of 32 points is it? not really a well rounded game. nobody wants him, or else montreal would have already moved him.
LOL, I knew you were going to bring up the fact that it was a shortened season, like that had
any bearing on his performance. 16 points in 51 GP is horrible no matter what way you look at it, that being said Coyle did do a great job at bouncing back, so kudos to him.
Anderson was never a points producer and wasn't signed to be one, he was signed to score 20+ goals a season and has pretty much done so in every season in Montreal (17, 19, 21 and 8) except this year. Players have different skill sets and trying to demean one whose primary skill is scoring because he doesn't put up a ton of assists is just plain stupid. Should we all start piling on Grzelcyk or Carlo cause they don't put up 30 points a year? No cause that's not what they are paid to do, they are defensive D men not PMD, Anderson is paid to score and be a physical presence and until this year he was doing that, this year he hasn't been scoring but is still doing everything else. Reports are teams have called about Anderson but it was Hughes and company who turned them away. Fans might not like him cause he isn't flashy or isn't a high points producer but GM's love him cause he can score and has size and speed.