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Forum: Armchair-GM11 mars 2021 à 3 h 32
Sujet: Nylander
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>FrustratedToronto</b></div><div>The perimeter player b.s. has found its way to other teams fans, too... Interesting. Let's get this out of the way, the guy had more goals then anyone from in close last season, which is where he's scoring his goals this season, too. A season where he's on-pace for a 30 goal campaign over 82 games. Some talking head (would it surprise anyone if it was Dave Poulin, the clown?) in the media said it last season, all of the stats (Nylander's shot charts and goal charts for example) proved it wrong, but it caught on because Toronto has fans who fall asleep watching the first period then latch onto every dumb thing that gets said on Overdrive or Leafs Lunch or whatever. He has some compete issues now and again, his defense is fine for a winger but could be better, overall he's a very good player who has more to give. So, let's just stop the perimeter player garbage and move on. He literally plays on the wing. The perimeter is where he's supposed to be most of the time.

Now, I like Schmidt. A lot. I wanted Toronto to try and grab him when he was in Washington and enjoyed watching him bloom into a stud on Vegas. He was like 25 at the time. He'll be 30 this off-season, coming off a not-so-great year in Vancouver (so far)-- and you can say he's been their 2nd best D, Vancouver isn't very good so that isn't really selling me. His offensive numbers are fine though I think slightly down, his possession numbers are down, and every game I've watched with him I've thought "what the hell happened to Nate Schmidt?". Now he's good in other stats analytics and he still has his moments, so I'm going to call it a mixed bag, he hasn't been a disaster at least, but he's making 6M for four more years. That's 30-34 year old seasons. I just don't think a prime-age scoring winger is proper value for an ageing defenseman who might be just a T-4 guy right now. Now, that might be why you added a 2nd and a prospect goalie so I guess it depends on how high you are on DePietro and I'm lukewarm.

If I knew Schmidt was going to get back his top level VGK form the next four seasons I could be convinced but I'm not there.</div></div>

Fair comment on the perimeter player stuff. Some issues with compete level at times is probably a much better way to put things so I definitely agree there.

Good analysis of Schmidt as well though I would argue that he has played much better the past 10 or so games. I think he struggled to adjust to the new system and teammates with no preseason and limited practice time for the first 20 games of the season. Not to mention the Canucks team defense as a whole is extremely sloppy. Schmidt’s skating ability hasn’t declined so that is a very good sign. Now I do get the concern over his age but I don’t think he will decline over the next 3 seasons, the 4th season I could see decline creeping in. If the leafs can replace nylanders 30 goals with a 20 goal scorer at half the price or with someone like Robertson then I don’t think their offense will suffer. A top 4 of Reilly Brodie, Muzzin Schmidt would make the leafs a very difficult team to beat in the playoffs for the next 3 seasons. Not to mention guys like sandin or liljegren stepping in with more ice time if one of those guys start to decline a bit.

I think dipietro has potential to be a mid-tier starter but more likely to be a solid backup or tandem. Always good to have a few promising goalie prospects in the system to increase the odds that one of them becomes legit (think cbj with korpisalo, Elvis, kivlikiens). And then you also get a 2nd round pick (maybe it should be for the 2022 draft) so the leafs have the option to use it to acquire someone at the deadline.
Forum: Armchair-GM5 févr. 2020 à 18 h 43