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ALjet12

ALjet12
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Forum: Armchair-GMOct 12 at 12:27
Forum: Armchair-GMOct 12 at 12:08
Thread: Letang Trade Deadline
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Pensfan89</b></div><div>No it doesn’t lol. If you suck on a bad team your value goes down, not up. And Seth Jones isn’t as good as Letang defensively either. Letang has been top 10 in Norris voting in 7 of the last 10 years. Not to mention the pens d Corp was pretty much a mess last year with injuries. We had POJ as a top pair d with Letang and Ahl scrubs like Czuczman and Yannick Weber in the top 4. Yet Letang is still elite. Whereas, Seth Jones by your own admission needs to play with good players to be good 🤷‍♂️</div></div>

The majority of points for a defenseman comes from assists. Last year Letang had 37% of his assists as powerplay assists and 63% at even strength. Jones has 26% of his assists as powerplay assists and 74% comes at even strength. The increase of points for Letang comes on the powerplay and the Penguins have a far superior powerplay than the Bluejackets. When you look at production between defensemen you have to look where it is coming from.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct 11 at 10:59
Thread: Letang Trade Deadline
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Pensfan89</b></div><div>Not really. You want an elite top pair RHD that plays 25+ minutes per game. Is almost a ppg defenseman. Plays all situations. And you want the other team to retain 50% of his cap hit making him only a 3.625 cap hit. It’s comical to believe he’d cost any less.
Letang &gt; Seth Jones
Seth Jones without retention got a top 15 pick, another 1st round pick, a 2nd round pick and a top RHD prospect that’s nhl ready.
So a late 1st, a bubble prospect, and a top RHD prospect that’s nhl ready is on the low side of what Letang would return.</div></div>
Except you are forgetting that Jones was traded at 27 years old with one year left on his contract while Letang is 34 years old and will only play 25 games for the isles at the max after the TDL.