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Originally Posted by Jason14h
I would take Nurse because getting him out of Edmonton and into a system and coaching staff that remotely cares about D would probably help him regain his game . Worse case he’s a Dion Phaneuf for the rest of his contract and you live with an overpaid 3rd D
I don’t see Huberdeau good enough to be one of tbe 4 best wingers on a good team anymore . So you’ll have an overpaid 3rd line winger blocking younger guys
It’s actually easier to hide an overpriced D then a overpriced winger IMO as D are harder to acquire average quality then wingers who are a dime a dozen
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Nurse is awful. He looks terrible playing sheltered minutes behind Ekholm and Bouchard. If Huberdeau can even average 45 points a year he is better than Nurse. It is far far easier to acquire a 5/6 dman than it is to acquire a 50-60 point forward. So far it appears that Huberdeau is a 55 point guy or so.
The average team had 3.5 forwards better than Huberdeau in terms of point production and 10.5 forwards who were worse. That puts Huberdeau in the top 25% of NHL forwards.
The top 25% of NHL dmen would mean that all one would have to do is find 56 dmen. That is less than 2 dmen per team. There are probably 100 or more dmen that are better than Nurse. Calgary has two of them minimum, Edmonton probably has 3 and Vancouver has at least 4.
Put another way, there were 7 other teams playing in the second round. On those 7 teams each team had on average at least 4 dmen who were better than Nurse and his own team probably has 3. There were probably 60 dmen in the playoffs this year who were demonstrably better than Nurse.
It is far far easier to hide an underperforming 50-60 point winger than it is the hide a 9.25 million dollar 5/6 dman.