Edited Jun. 29, 2020 at 6:43 p.m.
Quoting: mokumboi
1- Faulk quite often plays with Petro, who usually mans the left in that tandem.
2- It's a reasonable take, but really far too early to call.
3- Hmm. Scandella has been outstanding for us. The perfect partner to let Parayko open up his offense. We paid well for it, but it's holding value for now.
Faulk played with Pietrangelo a lot in the first half of the season, but has played the vast majority of his minutes with Dunn in the second half of the year- 98 minutes with Pietrangelo versus 173 minutes with Dunn since January 1st - probably because that Faulk/Pietrangelo pairing was bad (though not as bad as Parayko-Pietrangelo). I'm not really a big "handedness" guy but once guys play their whole career on one side, moving them over isn't doing them any favors. Neither is burying Faulk on the third line though that's a big part of why he had such a bad year, which is why trading him for McDonaugh would probably be good for both teams. Especially if we have Pietrangelo still around- do not need three RHD making that much money.
It's been 11 games with Scandella so gotta throw "small sample size" and all that on there. Also, don't look at his stats in non-contract years. He's not great! And that's not even just a "he was on buffalo" thing, he was also on some pretty good Minnesota teams before.
Quoting: Leafs_and_Sens_Fan
Yeah not sure why they did that trade. They had Pietrangelo and Parayko already. They needed Edmundson more than Faulk. They got robbed my Montreal for Scandella. That was a result of them trading Edmundson.
Don't blame the Edmundson-Faulk trade for the Scandella deal, blame Jay Bouwmeester's 36-year-old heart (all due respect to him- love Bouw). We would have needed another defenseman regardless of if we had Edmundson or Faulk after that happened, and the Scandella trade this year was perfectly acceptable and no one would have said anything about it being bad value if Buffalo hadn't stupidly traded him for nothing a month prior.