The Fucking Offseason Thread - Why bother waiting?

[leafman101]

Regardless for everyone who though Dubas changed, his biggest 3 moves so far (McCann, Mrazek, Bunting) are all "model breaking" analytics darlings.

 

[zeke]

People putting Bunting in the top 6……

What is going on here? I get leaf goggles but holy smokes. This guy will likely be Vesey level.

Galy was in our top 6 last year. And was good.

And Bunting was better than him.

Vesey and Thornton were too, but not so good.

 

[MindzEye]

If his model can't adjust at all for the fact that Bunting had a ridiculous shooting percentage in a tiny number of games...isn't that kind of an admission that his model (and hockey WAR in general) sucks and isn't worth paying a lot of attention to?

Not really...small samples are always wonky in any analysis. Any model is only as good as the data that goes into it.

 

[Volcanologist]

yes, wonderful.

so true, it's really about the friends you make on the way.

Next summer when we're doing our Shanahan era postmortem, this one's going to stick out as one of the lowlights. what a brutal trade.

 

[MindzEye]

Yep. Which brings us again to Dubas's decision to make the McCann trade. Maybe he had some faint hope they wouldn't take McCann, but otherwise he still saw Kerf as his third line center and wanted to protect him.

Yep, I'd rather have the cap space

 

[zeke]

The have to do more. They aren't done. They still have a bunch of cap space.

Nope. Offseason is over.

 

[zeke]

Weird what clearly upgrading the only weak spot on the team can do.

#PoorHomerZeke

 

[MindzEye]

 

[Leafin']

Disappointing day.

It’s likely Ullmark at 5> Mrazek+Kampf.

I had higher hopes for today.

 

[MindzEye]

Weird what clearly upgrading the only weak spot on the team can do.

#PoorHomerZeke

Read his next tweet about it....

Bunting has as much impact as Matthews according to his model right now. I think we can agree that is unlikely.

 

[zeke]

Yep. Which brings us again to Dubas's decision to make the McCann trade. Maybe he had some faint hope they wouldn't take McCann, but otherwise he still saw Kerf as his third line center and wanted to protect him.

If Seattle agreed with you they would have taken Dermott not Kerf.

 

[leafman101]

Weird what clearly upgrading the only weak spot on the team can do.

#PoorHomerZeke

No the Leafs additions stats are too good, you can't really count them.

 

[zeke]

Ah he does mention it at least

Oh boy why did our dumb GM sign model-breaking players what a moron.

 

[MindzEye]

Oh boy why did our dumb GM sign model-breaking players what a moron.

 

[hockeylover]

Not really sure how you go from wishing the GM would sign a 5.5 million dollar 3C and pleading with Seattle to take Kerfoot … to him keeping Kerfoot as 3C and signing a guy with 1 goal in 55 games for 4C and pretending everyone else is crazy for being disappointed.

 

[LeafGm]

If Seattle agreed with you they would have taken Dermott not Kerf.

Seattle's head coach is the dude who ran our defense the past couple of seasons, and who had little use for Dermott outside of playing him in a limited minutes third-pairing role, when he wasn't scratching him for Mikko Lehtonen or Rasmus Sandin.

Seattle was never taking Dermott. Though even if Dubas thought there was a chance of that, trading assets to protect Dermott would be dumb too.

 

[Leafin']

Can’t wait to win the Model Breaking Cup

 

[LeafGm]

Can’t wait to win the Model Breaking Cup

Is that more or less prestigious than the XGF% Cup?

 

[LeafGm]

Not really sure how you go from wishing the GM would sign a 5.5 million dollar 3C and pleading with Seattle to take Kerfoot … to him keeping Kerfoot as 3C and signing a guy with 1 goal in 55 games for 4C and pretending everyone else is crazy for being disappointed.

zeke zeke zeke zeke zeke!

 

[Preston]

Oh boy why did our dumb GM sign model-breaking players what a moron.

I don't think you know what model-breaking means in this context, sir. But sure, whatever makes you feel better. Bunting=Matthews!!