Quoting: RipNasty
Ah yes, the old "any depth guy from a different team is definitely better than the guys we have accomplishing much better results" sort of post. Laughton isn't nearly as good as Kampf and I doubt Kampf costs 3 million. Bunting may have to go but spending 5 million on Konecny who also is a player who'll ride coattails is a waste of money and these assets.
at 5v5, Laughton has nearly the exact same play-driving stats as Kampf despite half his S% and an unfortunate PDO, has three of his last four season with more points than Kampf's career-high 26, and sits a whopping one point behind Kampf while playing on both special teams. His faceoff percentage is weaker but still decent, he has 4x the hits Kampf does in four less games, and if that matters to you, he's also a "local boy",ditto konency. what matters is we get both Laughton and Kampf for this year, which is the key part, then in a worst case we sacrifice a bit of defensive ability for better offensive ability moving forward with Laughton over Kampf. hell, i'd rather let Holl move at the end of the year and allocate some of that 2M for Kampf and now you get both!
As for Konecny, don't know who you've been watching but being a PPG player on *these* Flyers is the complete opposite of 'riding coattails', esp given his linemates and teammates over the years. i'd rather him at 5M than Bunting at 4M for the next three years + we know konency can perform without Matthews and Marner, but we also know bunting can't. and if you don't think there are teams that will give Kampf 3M with a rising cap after seeing what he's done then you must not have seen the parade of former Leaf FAs get paid.
as for the assets required, i'd far rather do this than spend this and more to get 20 games of O'Reilly at his lowest point or Horvat post-shooting percentage downer - at least you get to keep the quality moving forward.
Quoting: palhal
Yep it might be Leafs better this year, but it's way too much long term cap for the Leafs to take on. The would be sure to lose Kampf and Bunting next summer and more.
as a whole, the point of the deal is mostly to win this year, without sacrificing all our best prospects. no more adding UFAs who will walk at the cost of assets, but instead adding two quality players with term means we can stay competitive moving forward too - losing Bunting/maybe Kampf will hurt, but that's the price we pay. people thought losing Hyman would cripple us and we added Bunting, then people thought Campbell leaving was a dagger before getting Samsonov for a third of his price. players will come and go, but good players at reasonable price and term are huge before the cap starts to soar again
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