Friendly reminder: Risto sucks. (Evolving-hockey RAPM chart here:
https://gyazo.com/7cf8555ae8e6c6973e8a2094afc7409f). That takes into account score effects, Quality of competition/teammates, zone starts, and just about anything else you can think of. He cannot defend and is below-average offensively at 5v5. He is, at best, a 3rd pair PP specialist.
Quoting: Swagmaster
Playing top minutes against every teams top players . Plus minus is the most misused stat in sports . You better watch him play this year before bashing him . Just makes you look like a fool.
Playing top minutes does not mean you are good. I could play top minutes against the best players in the NHL. It wouldn't end well, but, well... *gestures at every Sabres team that has had Risto in that role*.
Quoting: Copenhagen
Did you watch him play when I posted this, before the season started ahahhahaha FOOL look at the date of this! He played against the other teams last year too by the way, minus 50, wait until the end of the year and you can post something again when he is minus 30 about how good he is!
+/- is a terrible stat and should never be cited in it's basic form. Strength-specific +/- is the only valid form, and even then GF% is almost always better (and there are arguments that xGF% and CF% are better options than that, too).
Quoting: corsiagainst
Listen, I'll be the first one to say Risto isn't great. But tossing in an unprotected 1st and davidsson just for RNH is just crazy talk.
The Sabres aren't realistically a contender without an ROR-level player (wonder where they could've had one of those). RNH isn't that. No reason to give Edmonton more help in the draft lottery, they've had plenty
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Quoting: Barbs
This might actually be worse than Hall for Larsson
Nothing's topping Hall for Larsson as long as Brannstrom becomes a top-pair D. Hall's a LOT better than RNH.
Quoting: Copenhagen
Also if he is so good, Buffalo and all the fans on capfriendly are crazy to get rid of him, he was on 90% of trading threads about Buffalo. Keep him and pay him what he is worth as a number 1 D
He has worse defensive numbers than Cody Ceci. THAN CODY CECI. THAT SHOULDN'T EVEN BE POSSIBLE.