Literally Elliot Friedman, Frank Serivalle and Peirre Lebrun have all stated that MTL turned down significant offers for Anderson. This isn't something just made up by Habs fans.

And once again you can say what you want about stats but you still see teams give up significant assets for guys like Chairot, Foligno, Savard, Risto, hell even a washed up Rick Nash got a first and a prospect. Physicality is still something the old boys club that runs the league values and Anderson is apparently seen as a power forward.

Stop acting like NHL GMs are out here being perfect in their trades. I'm not even saying he is worth it, I'm just giving legit reasoning why Habs fans tell others his value is that high.

Thank you!

"Significant" is an arbitrary term and relative to the player. A 5th round pick is "significant," for Trevor Lewis. Conversely, a 2nd round pick is insignificant for Connor McDavid. I would also note that all of those "significant" offers were prior to the trade deadline last year and when Montreal thought he was going to improve. He didn't.

Actually they come from the trade deadline and the draft. Islanders were reportedly looking at Romanov or Anderson for the 13th pick, MTL chose to go with Romanov.

Like I said, you can hate it but big power forwards will always have a place in NHL GMs hearts for reasons that go beyond advanced stats or even basic logic

There are plenty of statistics which indicate a player's value while on the ice relative to other players. I don't think you can make a rational argument that Anderson makes good chances, but the rest of his team just can't capitalize. He has the 7th worse Corsi percentage on the Habs. Anderson is the equivalent of Coleman on the flames, grossly overpaid for his production because a similar player can be found for less AAV. I would absolutely take Lucic over Anderson because there is only one year left on his contract. It's also well established that peak production's bell curve has a median age of 28. Players decline in production past 28. The few exceptions don't discount the distribution: Giordano for example, started later than most defensemen and got better past 28. Crosby has been very consistent...Lindstrom...etc. they are still a very small subset and Andersons numbers have showed an earlier decline.

I think for a team to be truly competitive they need to have an above average level of production per skater relative to the individual AAV average per skater at any given time. So for 20 dressed skaters on any given game, that gives you an average of 4.125M per skater with a caphit of 82.5M. With two goalies you would need a combined minimum of .90SV%. For the 18 skaters you would need to be on average 1.24 Goals above replacement (above the league average GAR). That works out to spending 3.33M per GAR for any given skater. For example, if you have a skater on your bottom 6 D, like Vlasic at 7M per year with a -3.4GAR it produces negative 2.06M per GAR. Basically, it just means that other players need to have higher GAR relative to every dollar you spend on them against the cap. So for San Jose, Timo Meier had the highest GAR (+16) at an AAV of 6M. His GAR only costs San Jose 375K per GAR. It certainly offsets Vlasic, but you can see how much drag it puts on a team having a few bad contracts. So yes, having a player whose production is far below what their AAV per player would dictate, is a net drag on the team. I'm using the GAR stats based of an analysis Travis Yost did on what it takes for a team to be a contender, which he based off the stats of playoff vs non playoff teams, and the ultimate winners year over year. It's a good read. I suppose you could use WAR, as well for the goalies. I just used SV% for simplicity.

We're not the only ppl, it's actually the opinion and actual knowledge of every respectable insider

Nobody said I hate power forwards. Anderson is no Jerome Iginla, so stop pretending he is top tier because of insider anecdotes. For every 20 rumours, 1 of them will ever materialize. And yes GMs make terrible trades all the time. But the Montreal fanbase wouldn't be so excited about these rumours if he actually had that value. They are excited because he doesn't have that value and they think they will get a haul for an otherwise bad signing. Calgary fans would be doing the same thing if "rumours" said that a team wanted Coleman.

@leafs101

I mean nhl gms and coaches know more then we do so what can we expect

Even when you show them that, they still come up with stuff like "he's just click baiting" as if Pierre LeBrun, the most trusted insider, had nothing else to do.

@Oliver_Wahlstrom look above at the Pierre LeBrun Tweet

I will tag everyone who I have an argument with lol