Quoting: Timmah007
It’s one thing to say Seattle isn’t in position to add someone like Barrie which is very fair take but the overpriced comment isn’t correct. Look at what right handed d get paid Hamilton Jones so on and Barrie makes half but fully capable of out producing them. Sure he has some flaws to his game which are overblown but his production easily covers his salary.
Wow, so much to sort through here. Let me give it a shot.
- Barrie is overpriced (this is not a hot take at all), and bringing up two far superior and yet still overpriced examples doesn't help the argument.
- Barrie was capable of producing at a similar level (not outproducing them), but that time appears to be in the past now.
- Let's be real, his flaws are not overblown. Dude is a major defensive liability, and he no longer produces enough to obscure that well-known fact.
- The guy has 18 points in 41 games, and just nine in 644 even strength minutes. If it wasn't for coat-tail riding McD and Drai, those numbers would be even sadder. And for a 30-year-old guy with obvious defensive issues and a 2x4.5 remaining after this season, that is not what I consider covering his salary. If you think it is, well gosh... good luck with all that. Just be aware that there are currently 59 RDs with a better points per $ ratio (or almost enough for every team in the league to have two), and almost all of those are far superior defensively. There are 151 D-men with better pts/$ ratios, which is a little under five for every team (and again, most are much better defensively, to boot). In all, there are a grand total of 530 NHL players currently with a better pts/$ ratio, or enough for every team to have just over 16-and-a-half of them (and, mind you, teams dress 18 skaters per night).
I don't know what else to tell you, man.
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