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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Lucic is a +69 for the last 3 years. Brouwer who the Flames brought in to settle things down by comparison is a +7 over that same period playing on pretty equivalent teams.
seems that whatever line Lucic is on dominates the other teams line 5 on 5 by a significant amount. Might call that defense....
Their big centre Draistl put up a -2 on an awful team.... compares well with our big centres Monahan -6 and Bennett -11. True they don't have a Backlund.
Pouliot is a big lunch bucket player who plays hard and puts up decent points. a career +38 Frolik the Flames equivalent is a career +16
PS If Hall , a toe dragger of the highest order, is a huge loss than Colbourne would be a have to be rated as a significant loss to the Flames.
Replacing Hall and Yak with Lucic and Maroon is a drastic change in style and attitude.
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+/- is a bad stat, because you can throw it out there as proof of nothing unless you look at who the player rides herd with.
Pouliot is big, when he wants to play he's lunch bucket, but when he doesn't which is more often of not, he's invisible, lazy and takes brutal penalties. Yeah, I can safely say that I would take Frolik over him 9 times out of 10.
Two years in a row, Draisaitl has vanished. In his first year he was awful. Last year he had a huge start, and then completely gave up in the second half and was completely invisible. Right now I take Monahan over him and I would certainly take Bennett over him because of just the personal preference of work ethic and having more dimensions.
I like Lucic, I think he'll be ok for the Oilers for the first half of the season, and then fade, I also think by the last year of the contract this will be a massive mistake signing. Right now for the differences in offense, I would rather have Brouwers deal then Lucic's deal thanks