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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
You have your opinion. And that’s fine.
It merits consideration among other stats.
Guess how hockey games are won. By outscoring your opponent. Goals for matter. Goals against matter. Especially for top line players. Those are the guys who are supposed to outscore the opponent. You don’t want a top line player that puts you in a position to hope the 4th line will pick up for their defensive blunders.
Some players are massive pluses over their career. Look at Crosby. He was a -1 his first year, and has never been an overall minus since, despite the coach often putting at least one plug on his line for him to drag around while they spread out the offence.
You never see the excuse about Crosby playing for a bad team because he elevates the other players on the ice and the team isn’t bad, because of him
He plays the right way and never cheats on defensive effort. Hall has offensive skills but does not play the right way defensively
You have all seen it. Don’t pretend you haven’t
You may want him on the team and that’s fine. I don’t
Given questions about him in the room and concerns around team chemistry, lack of defensive effort, and compromise of other uses for those dollars are the three main reasons.
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Yeah, Hall is not Crosby. News at 11.
I don’t really even want Hall on the team. I don’t care. But the idea that plus minus suddenly is THE stat or that we should turn down every player that isn’t Sidney Crosby is bizarre. We all wish we had O’Reilly, right? Well, not a lot of people wanted him when he was available. So best laid plans and all.
If you keep waiting to somehow get a perfect player in a trade, you’re going to miss out or be unhappy with the cost. It’s the way it goes. Guys like Hall? Far from perfect, but that’s why he’s available and that’s why the cost isn’t insane.