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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Oh to return to the halcyon days where people would argue with a straight face that Ian White was 'better defensively' than Dion.
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White is an example of why you can't look at "games played" to decide the quality of a player. He has 503 NHL games (which is decent), but most with a terrible Leafs team that didn't have better options.
You always see the arguments that a player has "x" number of games and a draft pick is unlikely to ever play that number of games, so it is worth it to trade the pick for that player. I doubt any GM worth his paycheck ever looks at that, but fans use it all the time to justify bad trades.