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Is this where you expect me to feel bad because it was Treliving?

Had a career season at 28, got paid, switched teams and evaporated.

Yeah...remember when he was an elite perimeter set up guy?

Could move to Russia I suppose.

I've been saying this for a long ass time. There isn't a better gig in the hockey world than being on Auston Matthews wing.

Russian skill midget coming over who might be good, but might just be another Russian skill midget.

The whole country is run on 79 yr old cranky, mean dementia vibes.

Because the universe fucking loves irony.

Literally 1 in 2 yrs. Mitch has 3 short handed points over the last 2 seasons combined. Of all of the things that don't matter, this is one of them. I mean, when you tie the two points together, should the rational take be that Mitch's contributions are less impressive than your eye test...

Yes, I will dismiss that forever especially the second part because it's insane nonsense. Moving the puck efficiently overall is critical to maintaining puck possession which is critical to generating offence. But the vast, vast majority of 2nd assists are relatively simple things like passing...

We traded Mitch Marner for one of those though.

Meh. Wouldn't move our needle. Not a bad deal but unless it's a real upgrade I'm entirely good with the #RobbieResurrection, which for the sake of efficiency will just be referred to as the #Robbierection going forward

A decent playoff run would cure all.

Rando list of (maybe) #1 defenders who might be available now or in the not so distant future - Doughty - Weegar - Andersson - Ferraro - Quinn Hughes - Harley - Parayko - Karlsson - Hamilton - Sanheim - Matheson - Chabot None of them other than maybe Karlsson jump out at me as particularly...

Last 2 years: 1st Apples: Marner: 38 Domi: 37 Matthews: 31 (Maccelli in his 22-24 yrs): 28 Nylander: 27 Tavares: 27 Rielly: 27 2nd Apples: Mitch: 26 McCabe: 19 Domi: 16 Matthews: 15

Fwiw, Mitch had 35 assists at 5v5 last year. 19 1st assists, 16 2nd assists. He was T-14 in 5v5 1A's Ahead of him were noted playmaking superstars Pierre Luc Dubois, and Phillip Danault. I'm not worried about his PP contributions, because I'm pretty sure he's the reason it keeps breaking...

"led to" Of those 70 there will definitely be some that only a playmaker as good as Mitch could have pulled off. But a whole big bucket of those are like the two you brought up earlier...shovel pass in the neutral zone to Auston that 90% of the league could make 90% of the time. A point to...

I never wanted this guy in the first place...so sure.

It's not, though unless if he slips through the cracks I don't know if I want to lock him into UFA level term after 1 decent year with 18% shooting. Bertuzzi him though? Yeah sure, let's go.

One of my glimmers of hope going forward is that in the year ender, Tree specifically spoke about changing tactics to be more aggressive. When you talk about more offence from the blueline, you're talking about being more aggressive in transition, and more pinching.