Quoting: Juiceman
Again, points done mean anything for a defensive first player. We are going to pay Dickinson to shut down other teams lines. You don’t understand rolls. You have 4 very good point producers and a bunch of other random role players. Garland is by no means known to be a point producer. He is known to be a scrappy winger with extreme work ethic and playmaking ability. 25 is also not even that old. You could make the case and say Kaprizov is not that good cause he only has one season under his belt at 25. I also never said that Marner was bad defensively so I don’t know what that’s about. Pettersson Miller Horvat Hoglander Garland and Boeser all have good defensive awareness and defensive game. I will do as another person has said and that is to let the play do the talking. If the Leafs can win a round this next year then I don’t know what to say…
Points have everything to do with how good a player is when you are considering everything a player does. If a guy is better defensively AND scores significantly more, he is a much better player. Danault is a much better player than Dickinson, and a guy who barely scores but is good defensively is a 4th liner.
And Garland is 100% known as a point producer, that's literally his entire thing, he may be scrappy or whatever, but people like him because he scored on a bad team while getting sweatheart zone starts and favourable sheltering. He's a nice little complementary piece.
Weird how you bring Karpitzov into the situation because that's a terrible comparison considering he only has one NHL season and he some how managed to get 11 more points in it than Garland ever has, on top of his history of producing well in the KHL.
And you said points werent everything, so i pointed out how no, they were not. In fact the leafs also have more than points going for their core.
And the Leafs might be trying to win a round, but the canucks will be trying to stay ahead of the sharks and ducks for dead last in the pacific