Over the last two weeks I've seen too many posts where Mackenzie Weegar is grouped into the Huberdeau, Markstrom, and Kadri contracts and that's just not the case.
He's great value at $3.25M, and will be good value at $6.25M. 45 dmen will make over $6M next year and I'm perfectly fine with the Flames paying Weegar that much.
People are disaapointed in his points but he's played no PP time, so that was always going to reduce his numbers. And as a whole this team isn't as prolific as the Panthers from last year either.
Overall though he's still a pretty great d-man at 5v5.
Goals: 1 (Team D Rank: 6th)
Assists: 13 (2nd)
Points: 14 (3rd)
Shots: 86 (2nd)
Hits: 108 (1st)
Blocked Shots: 59 (3rd)
Individual xG: 4.3 (1st)
Corsi For %: 61.6% (1st)
xGF/60: 2.87 (4th)
xGA/60: 2.05 (1st - 3rd in the entire NHL)
xGF%: 58.4% (2nd - 7th in the whole NHL)
GF/60: 2.25 (5th)
GA/60: 2.13 (1st - remarkable when you have a on ice .899 SV%)
GF%: 51.4% (5th)
On Ice Shooting %: 6.41% (6th)
On Ice Save %: .899 (5th)
Him and Tanev have had horrible shooting and save percentage luck this season, but overall they still have been our two most reliable dman. And IMO Weegar has been good with and without Tanev, where I feel like Hanifin and Andersson can really struggle when Tanev is out.
On top of that he's been good on the PK. Has been flexible to play with different d partners, and bounce from the LH to the RH side of the ice.
If not for a terrible on ice shooting percentage and individual shooting percentage his counting stats would look a lot better. Wouldn't mind him getting more PP time too.
Much like TJ Brodie in the past people will fixate on the bad giveaways every couple games, but overall he more than makes up for that.
Personally I'm happy Weegar is part of the team and have no issues with that contract.
And as an extra here is his JFresh player card.
