Edited Nov. 6, 2019 at 10:10 a.m.
Quoting: LoganOllivier
You accuse me of making up supporting evidence and then try to bring a player not mentioned anywhere here as supporting evidence for your argument. Which, as far as I can tell, your argument is that Gus is worth a 1st round pick because Nylander had 27 points last year and was a healthy scratch (which in fact he was never a healthy scratch, so lets file that under made up statistics to support a silly argument.) How about this, lets all take a long deep breath and look at reality and since this discussion is actually about Gus and his massive over evaluation, lets talk about him. What are his grand accomplishments. He is a 27 year old defenceman who scored a pile of PP points 1 time in his career and can't play at 5v5. So much so that he is now being healthy scratched. There is just no logic in thinking he's worth anything more than a 3rd round pick at this point. If you aren't good enough to play in Chicago why would anyone want to spend premium assets on acquiring you? The reality is Gus was never really good, he's terrible defensively, and has always been that, he scored a bunch of secondary points on the PP last year and you want to capitalize on that, which is fair. But lets be reasonable, he's not good enough for your lineup, even if he costs only 600K he's still not good enough to play 5v5 for a bad team, who would he replace in the lineup? There are not many teams where he'd be an upgrade and the teams where he would be, are in the basement with Chicago.
I'm admitting Gus isn't playing well right now, but to say he's not good enough to play on the team.....OK fine...I'm going win this argument if Gus ever plays another game with the Hawks. I'll make sure You're the 1st person to know if he ever plays in the NHL ever again. You act like a wake up call means he'll never play again. Sometimes players need a wake up call. And for the record...real supporting data looks like the below...not just type 5V5 and an age and then making stuff up. You have ZERO supporting Data above.
3rd round picks for Dmen @ the TDL...
3rd round pick - Alex Petrovic...played all of 9 games for EDM
3rd round pick - Brandon Davidson...7th Dman for NYI
3rd round pick - Nick Holden - 7th Dman for BOS
Teams routinely trade 3rd round picks for 7th Dmen. So, Yeah...he should get ALOT more.