Quoting: BetterBrianMaclellan
i don't even know what you mean? I never said anything about tough guys "only understanding hockey." Those efficiency statistics you use are ridiculous and irrelevant into a player's ability or sustainability. Oh and let me use your logic...Pheonix Copley should teach Henrik Lundqvist about how to win a stanley cup. Once again, your ridiculous comments are...well...just that...ridiculous
Well, I mean, Boyd played in one playoff game, so....
Ritchie might not be bad. But his 62% offensive zone starts this year with 49% corsi say he's not exactly keeping the cycle game going forever. He's getting a lot of assists in a small sample of games, but I'm not sure it's significant. His career zone starts, at 56%, match Burakovsky's. His career points/60 at 1.62, is a fifth lower than Burakovsky's, at 2.05. That looks like a significant difference. It's also lower than Burakovsky has posted in any single season.
Burakovsky is struggling, right now, but I think he rushed back from a wrist injury and he's playing a career-toughest 46% offensive zone starts, while Ritchie's getting easier minutes than Ovechkin has posted in any season. Unless Ritchie will keep getting 62% offensive zone starts on Backstrom's line, which currently gets 50%, Ritchie's decent showing in a couple months on a top line is not convincing me that you should trade Burakovsky for him, straight up, let alone add a little guy like Boyd, who might turn out to be nothing, or might have to try to replace Connolly's production next year, depending on how big they go on Vrana's new deal.
I like his hits, age, contract, and draft position. Other than that, Burakovsky's a 23 year old clutch hero with three playoff multiple goal games who got 0.50 p/gp more in his last playoffs than Ritchie got in his last playoffs.
This is a good cap trade. Short term, it's fine because Ritchie is playing a little better than Burakovsky. Long term, assuming Burakovsky's wrist is back to 100% next year and Ritchie is back to being a chippy middle six player no one notices, Anaheim wins so, so big it's ridiculous.
Could this offer get Faksa, who will also end up underappreciated, but is more of a difference maker?