Quoting: JaredOfLondon
marginally improve on garland? lol, the guy has one 50 point season and one 20 goal season
This past season:
Garland had 47 5v5 points, 17 5v5 goals, and 2.62 5v5 points per 60.
Nylander had 40 5v5 points, 18 5v5 goals, and scored 2.13 5v5 points per 60.
So garland was better at scoring 5v5 last year.
Now where nylander is clearly better is on the PP. garland didn’t play on Vancouvers top unit this year, but even if he did I’d be surprised if he scored at Nylander’s rate of 31 PP points which lead Toronto.
So the upgrade for Van is getting a PP specialist without losing much at 5v5.
However, the powerplay is at the bottom of Vancouvers offseason to do list. Van still had a top 10 powerplay last year and their top unit is already set with Pettersson/miller/Horvat/Hughes/Boeser. Nylnder would probably replace Boeser on PP1, given they are both right handed and he is probably the worst player in the PP. Nylander scored 2 more PP goals than Boeser last year, so while he is an upgrade on the power play, it’s not very significant.
So the on ice value from the Canucks perspective is marginal, then factor in $2 million more against the cap and only half the term left, Canucks lose long term value.
On top of all that, the Canucks also have to give up Hoglander, who is, at worst, a Nick Robertson level piece?
Yeah easy pass