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Originally Posted by fleury
These are the takes I generally disagree with. Toffoli, at the end of his LA days was a third line player who was slow, without finish, but grinded it out. He’d be a third liner on most teams. He very likely signed at a discount to go to his favourite team, Montreal. He’s exceeded expectations dramatically and found a new life. There was little indication at the time this would happen. In hindsight, great, but I generally agreed with passing on him given his past performance and higher salary he’d have demanded on any other team but Montreal.
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Toffoli was on pace to score 25.44 goals over 82 games if you pro-rate his 18 goals in 58 games with the Kings last year. That would have put him on pace to be top 70-75 in the league amongst forwards. That is one hell of a team if he is on your third line. He has either scored more than 20 goals or been on an 82 game pace to score more than 20 goals in 6 of the last 7 seasons.