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<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>TrueCanuck</b></div><div>This is all completely false. Hyman's defensive impact and xGA is 10.3, where Kerfoot's is 10.9. But the big differnce there is that Kerfoot has played 11 more games than Hyman, so at that rate Hyman would have a worse xGA after those 11 games. The speed is a eye test, but there's not too many people that think Hyman is a great skater and Kerfoot has been seen as one of their fastest skaters since he was acquired, but that's subjective to your opinion. Kerfoot is undoubtedly more versatile than Hyman. Kerfoot can play all 3 forward positions and not look out of place, where Hyman is more of a natural winger and isn't a great centre and hasn't played the position regularly since college. Hyman has only taken face-offs at centre on the PK, where Hyman is only a career 43.5% on face-offs but Kerfoot is a career 49% (Hyman is 32.7% this year - which is god awful, and Kerfoot is 40.3% - which still isn't good but it's much better than Hyman).

As for Hyman on the top line, it gives Matthews and Marner the guy to go into the corner for them and save their body for scoring. Sure Foligno could do that, so he could be flipped in that spot too. But the main thing is that Hyman is better suited for a Leafs top 6 role right now than he is a 3rd line shutdown guy when Toronto has better options for defence. The only thing saying he's better for that role is your opinion, which could be bias.</div></div>

I mean, we have seen Hyman flourish in that shutdown line before as seen with the ZIP (Zach, Ilya, Pierre) line