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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
So instead of huffing and puffing respond to posts that aren't absurd.
There are guys that for me that are clearly ahead of Hall:
Benn
AO
Johnny
Forsberg
Landeskog
Marchand
That's based on ability to produce, and all around game.
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There's just no way you could objectively justify the last three (Marchand is the closest, but he's still a full tier below - also I'm not certain I'd take him over Pacioretty). The only way you can do it is on the basis of your own intuition, eye test, suggesting that you see things that don't show up in actual on-ice results for the team, and so on. People get so married to bias against the other tribe here that they'll just put a 20% discount on a player's skill just because he's an Oiler.
I don't know if Hall's going to produce more, less or the same with the Devils - the Devils are a pretty bad team right now. But he instantly becomes the top LW in the division not named Ovechkin, and I suspect this "Oiler stink" bias will fade over time and people will figure out that he's actually an elite forward in this league.