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#ForBorje - GDT #1: TOR v TBL 23/4/18 7:30 - HERE. WE. GO.

But...crucially...he never would have played against us in the playoffs.
Then Simmonds would’ve just signed with the Habs and Bolts and given us the exact same shitkicking. And Perry would’ve been on LTIR for three years now.

We’re talking about the Leafs here!
 
I sympathize with anyone who thought that Corey Perry was washed (and a douche). He was 3 years older than Wayne at the time, was coming off of a pretty ugly looking season where even his reduced, old man production had taken a nose dive (5 goals in 57 games). But when you looked under the hood, 53% xG and 6% shooting that season for Dallas kind of suggested that he wasn't cooked yet.

On the other side, Simmonds was bad for a full 2 years prior to us signing him and had been heavily underwater in xG for 6 full seasons before we signed him.

We were convinced that we needed a tough guy. It's kind of fitting that this decision, based on a terrible assessment of our actual needs, continues to be a ridiculous impediment to success a few years later.

As a pure depth player, Corey Perry has 5 goals over his last 15 playoff games against the Leafs. A 27 goal 49 point pace in like 12-13 minutes a game. John Tavares has a 27G 63PT pace over the 9 of those 15 games he's played in...not to shit on Tavares, just to show the relative impact of Perry in the playoffs against us over the last 3 years.


I have far less sympathy. I’ve been wrong about many things, but Perry >> Simmonds has turned into one of my better takes:


But Perry @ $750K >> Simmonds @ $1.5M

Is this actually true though? At a glance, Perry's possession numbers are turrible. Simmonds are just meh.

I don’t have any hard data to back up this hot take.

It’s just that in the battle of over-the-hill veteran grit, I prefer the one that’s half the price, has more career & playoff pedigree & more of a reputation as a dirty shit-bag that’s a pain in the ass to play against.

Dubas clearly feels that Simmonds has more left in the tank though, and I’m hoping he’s right.
 
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