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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I don't get this line of thinking and why people seem to have a personal vendetta against Huberdeau so much.
He's sucked as a Flame but you're not going to shame him into leaving $70M dollars on the table. And just benching him forever is not in the team or players best interest.
It's in the team and players best interest to work together to try to figure this out and at least try to get him to a point where he can maybe get 60-80 points in a season.
They should probably think about sitting him for a game at some point but to say "just make him the 13th forward" would be the stupidest thing you could do 110 games into a 9 year relationship.
And even then...he's not worth near $10.5M but he's still an NHLer. 70 points in 110 games isn't "he's not even an NHLer territory", just not worth close to $10.5M.
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I'm not sure he's an effective top-6 forward on the flames. And he doesn't have the skill set to effectively play a bottom-6 role.
Fwiw Dom a the Athletic puts his market value at $4.5m based on his current and projected production. And the projected production is optimistic relative to his current production. So the market value of his play this year is well below $4.5m
Forwards by market value based on current and projected play. Huby outside of top-6.
Kadri - $7.2m
Lindholm - $6.8m
Zary - $5.8m
Backlund - $5.1m
Mangiapane - $5.1m
Coleman - $4.8m
Huby - $4.5m
And based on play in season to date, Sharangovich is also ahead of Huby on the depth chart.
So Huby is the 8th best forward on the team, but doesn't really have the defensive game to play a third line role. And it's plausible he falls to 10th on the depth chart next season after accounting for Coronato and Pelletier. And Huby isn't well suited to a 4th line role either.
Its entirely plausible that taking Huby out of the line up today is addition by subtraction. And the likelihood of that idea only rises as Coronato, Pelletier and Honzek mature and the flames draft high picks over the next few drafts.