Quoting: GMBL
Buchnevich and Meier have similar skillsets and their numbers are pretty similar
numbers in the previous 3-years.
Goal rate: Buch 0.4 Meier 0.42
Assist rate: Buch 0.61 Meier 0.41
Meier in the 2 years pretrade:
134 games, 66 goals, 128 points.
with a whopping 581 shots
Buch in the last 3 years:
154 games, 64 goals, 159 points
370 shots
With meier being younger and a power forward is something GMs love.
They don't have similar skillsets. Timo is a power forward who generates boatloads of chances.
5v5 xGoals shares through the years
Buch: 49.7, 46.6, 52.8, 50.9, 52.9, 46.8, 49.1, 52.8
Timo: 48.6, 56.8, 53.5, 52, 51.6, 57.7, 54.3, 59.4
There's a reason the market gave RFA timo 8.8 and RFA buch 5.8
I think you're going to be vastly disappointed when your 28 year old PPG winger expiring as a UFA doesn't return what a 40 goal 26 year old power forward with RFA control did