Quoting: drewjenkins
Just a quick reminder of last seasons performance:
$3,500,000 cap-hit | 52 points | Alex Kerfoot
$6,700,000 cap-hit | 46 points | Brock Boeser
$4,800,000 cap-hit | 32 points | Ilya Mikheyev
$5,000,000 cap-hit | 52 points | Conor Garland
$5,500,000 cap-hit | 52 points | Bo Horvat
One of these contracts is far better than the rest lol.
And Kerfoot's points are all ES and PK points.
Here's a good example:
50 = Alex Kerfoot's even-strength points last season.
41 = E. Pettersson's even-strength points last season.
Kerfoot was far more productive than Pettersson last season.
He just isn't gifted 3 minutes of power play time every game like EP.
He kills penalties instead. Why would TOR even want to move him?
Ah yes kerfoots 13 goals definitely more impressive than petterssons 30. And kerfoots on ice shooting percentage of 11.23% 5v5 has nothing to do with his career best year in assists!
Kerfoot is fine and a decent middle 6er but WOW are we reaching trying to claim he’s better than any of those players listed above. Ignoring Mikheyev only played 52 games eh? Or Boeser scored 49 points in 56 games in 2021, including 23 goals, or Horvat scoring over 30 goals this past year in 70 games, 12 less than Kerfoot.
Kerfoot has averaged, since arriving in Toronto, a 12 goal and 40 point pace per 82 games.
A better comparable would be Pearson, who has averaged a 42 point, 19 goal pace over 82 games over the same time period, has nearly the same cap hit as Kerfoot, and plays about more similar minutes 5v5.
And the reason Toronto would want to trade Kerfoot is that they are well over the salary cap right now and still have to sign Sandin and he is a redundant piece for them.
Anyways, Kerfoot doesn’t even matter here because he’s literally not even in the trade lol