Quoting: mhockey91
So you over reach with Matthew’s calling him a potential 60 goal scorer, and then you way undersell barzel as a 60-75 point centre when if he didn’t play for trotz he’d be getting 80-90+ points. Makes sense. You also forgot Pulock
i don't think calling matthews a potential 60 goal scorer is an overreach. he has more goals than every player other than ovi since entering the league, 1st at 5v5. He scored 40 as a rookie, scored at a 45 goal pace over 2 injury-riddled years (still 34 and 37 goals across 62-68 games), and this year had 47 goals in 70 games. After keefe took over he was scoring at a 58 goal pace, and he also was playing some of the best defensive hockey of his career while scoring at a crazy high pace. He did all that before turning 23.
barzal might play better under an offense focused scheme, he had 85 points in his first year (before trotz), but he's not remotely as good as matthews, not even close, his career high is 22 goals. I know he's a 2 way guy, he's not a sniper, more of a playmaker by the looks of it, but between that and a pure, legit, franchise 1C like matthews with the pure goal scoring that he can do, no way
pulock is good, but we don't need him. We have Muzz/Brodie/Rielly, Holl was passable, we have sandin and liljegren in the system - we just don't need pulock, esp considering he'd prob walk in 2 years anyway. If we're upgrading the D at this point, it's to get a #4, not another #1, we already have 1, arguably 2 of those (Muzz/Rielly)