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Artnes said:
Gotta look to filling a glaring hole in our lineup with this debate. It would be nice to have a guy like Nash but Giggles would fit the desire of what we have been crying for.

Would he crack under the pressure of playing for his childhood team?
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The media in Ottawa is some times too much for Giggles to handle. One week in Toronto and Brian Papineau would open the Leafs dressing room to find a giggling mass lying in the corner huddled in the fetal position.
 
I'm a fan of HockeyReference's GC (goals created) that weights goals heavier than assists and factors in total team production

Nash is good but not great.

To provide a bit of context

10/11

Crosby - .65 (league leader)
B Richards - .42
Semin - .37
Nash - .35
Grabo - .34
Kessel - .31


So again, the issue shouldn't be "do you want Rick Nash on your team", the issue should be "are you willing to overpay for him"

The answer to that question should be "no"
 
IrishWolfman said:
The media in Ottawa is some times too much for Giggles to handle. One week in Toronto and Brian Papineau would open the Leafs dressing room to find a giggling mass lying in the corner huddled in the fetal position.
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But a quiet guy like Nash who has avoided the media like the plague for most of his career would fare better at this....because?
 
Nash has been on very bad teams though and has never played with an elite center. Fedorov was done by the time he went to Columbus.

The real issue is, as was stated, would you overpay for Nash because that is what it would take to pry him out of Columbus. Apparently most here wouldn't.
 
I disagree. 2002 wasn't a particularly good year in terms of high-end talent in the draft so I don't think that's the case at all. Nash has been a perennial all-star with a World Cup title and Olympic gold medal to his resume and is on his way to his sixth thirty-plus goal campaign in eight seasons in the NHL (one of the others in which he would have hit thirty).
 
leafman101 said:
I don't think anyone would not take Nash on the team.

You can't deny he's been a disappointment to this point though.
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Multiple forty goal seasons while playing for a franchise that was nowhere near being a serious contender at any point over the eight seasons he's been there. In that time he's won a Rocket Richard, World Championship Gold, World Championship MVP and an Olympic Gold Medal, all before the age of 27.

Just what would he have to do to be a success?
 
If we had an established number 1 centre I likely would ( to an extent). We need to fill that hole before we start looking elsewhere
 
Be more than a 60-70 point player.

He just flat out consistently doesn't play to his skill level.

I'm not saying he's a terrible player. I'm just saying for Rick Nash, he has been a disappointment more than not.
 
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Just what would he have to do to be a success?
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As a #1 overall pick in the NHL draft? Be better than .82 ppg on his career would be a start I guess.

Nice player, nobody is saying otherwise, but what would you give up to get him?
 
The fact of the matter is Rick Nash makes $7.8 million a year, is expected to be a superstar franchise player, and really has been just a 65-70 point guy.

In no universe is that not a disappointment.
 
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