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Thread: Joshua Yes Hronek Nah
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Joblow</b></div><div>We got the point you are a habs hater! Everyone have noticed it, that’s fine but come on. Stop with the bull****. Matheson under 5 millions is a massive bargain. No mather what you think, if you look at contract giving to defenseman around the league he make a lot less than what he should. Hronek is younger and that about it. He will cost a lot more then the 4,85 that matheson make.</div></div>

I don't hate the Habs, I actually like a lot of players on their team. I was one of the first to say Edmonton were ****es for not selecting Caufield at #8. I'm a big Dach fan and hope he can get past this spree of injuries to have a successful career. I really like Suzuki's 3-way game. I defended Slaf when people were calling him a bust after last year. I thought the Reinbacher pick was solid, when most of your own fanbase was loosing their mind over it.

It's just as simple as I'm not blind enough to fall for the trap of Matheson's, outlier season points total at age 30. There are very few players players in the league who had more points on the power play than they did at 5v5. Here is everyone that had at least 15 PP points; Stamkos, Zuccarello, Zibanijad, Matheson, Gostisbehere, L Hughes, Burns, Fowler, Montour, N. Foligno, Johnson. Foligno and Johnson are there because they played on the PP with Bedard but are otherwise 3rd liners. Montour had a major injury. Hughes is a rookie and stepped in to replace Dougie on PP1 on NJ. Fowler was moved to his off hand with the promotion of Mintyukov and Zellweger. The rest are all PP specialists for the most part, Zibanijad being the exception but Rangers fans have been complaining about his play all year.

Let's clarify something, I do not think Montreal should trade Matheson at all, his value to them as a team vastly outweighs his market value. They have a young D-core and need to shelter it as best they can. I do think Matheson will lose his PP1 job next season to either Hutson or Mailloux though. He probably won't get much more than 30 points.