Quoting: Jded
You have 5 Stars because he’s looking at this from the TOR perspective. Not good enough value for Larsson. You’re trading someone who compares as:
• the same number of points in ‘18
• career -18 versus +44
• one year older
• almost 300 less games of NHL experience
• $300K increases salary
• horrible advanced statistics vs decent advanced stats
• undrafted vs #4 overall pick (not of value inherently, but still indicative of skill and potential)
Edmonton just lost their most experienced defenseman, and now your solution to them is to take away their second? You know they see themselves as a playoff team right? Larsson is far from being in the block. When that’s the case you need to give a fantastic offer to get an organization to let go of someone they want to retain. This feels like the opposite
Look at the other part from Edmonton Oilers part, its just under this part. Also it counts on Bouchard being NHL ready and he is Shea Weber 2.0 trust me. He would be great.
First of all its trade in 2019 preseason as you might read probably, also in the scenario it counts redemption from Zaitsev and that he would be very solid, which might help Oilers as he is better 2-way player and has better defence-to-offence transition than Larsson by miles, also can double the Larsson points and be solid on D without loosening D core.. And also helps offensively.
As for your comparables:
-the same amount of points in good season for Larsson compared to worst possible season from Zaitsev (in 3 less games and horrible illness in January) and he for sure would be atleast 40pt player in NHL in 2018/19
-career -14 versus +44.. Im not taking anything from Larsson, but Zaitsev when he posted -22 in 16-17 was playing with arguably the least defensive line in the league in JVR-Bozak-Marner and paired with Gardiner (who we know is bad defensively), he is a plus player with decent teammates with him. Also +/- is shitty stat.
-if you are 25 or 26 it does not matter in this league, as soon as the difference is more than 3yrs age does not matter.
-NHL experience does not matter.. or does it make Duchene better player in comparable to Panarin (1yr year difference) because he has 411 more games in NHL? No..
-300k is almost nothing
-advanced stats are sometimes misleading, you got to look into it from stats and eyetest standpoint.. combine those two in 2018/19 season when Zaitsev hasnt got TERRIBLE season.. they would be similar.. advanced stats say that Polak is comparable to Ristolainen lol..
-position on the draft or not being drafted does NOT matter.
I get what you are trying to say but that deal is from stats, playwise and contract wise pretty fair.