When Huberdeau was scoring 15 and 12 goals per season, he had the worst contract in the league. At 28 goals he is tied for 50th OA for goal scoring, which is top line production.
It is not great but it sure is a step in the right direction.
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Originally Posted by gvitaly
He was about $4M overpaid($6.4M value) based on last year's analytics, and he's likely overpaid by $5.5M for the duration of the contract. Dom's model isn't the best tool out there, so take it with a grain of salt, but it does give some perspective.
I also thought that Hubby got a bit lucky to score 28 last year, as a lot of the goals seemed tot be the result of some puck luck. I would probably take the under on 23 goals this year.
PS: I'm not trying to run the guy out of town, and he has a NMC which he fairly negotiated.
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I think it is weird that Huberdeau scored more goals last year than the two previous years combined but that chart barely bumped and still just shows his value crashing.
I think a full season of Huberdeau-Kadri-Coronato would make a world of difference over last season where Huberdeau played 427 minutes with Pospisil and 279 minutes with Coronato.
I also think that if Huberdeau were traded to the Stars and was dropped onto a line with Hintz and Rantanen, that would also do magical things to his production. Maybe he'd get back to 100 points and then we'd all be screaming into our pillows about how he could do that on the Panthers and Stars but not with the Flames.