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Originally Posted by stuff99
I suppose Crosby, Stamkos and Ovechkin are garbage players in the West too if they played here.
Thornton experienced not much of a drop off since his move out here to the west. Same with Heatley.
In fact ppl argue that the NW division is one of the weakest in the NHL now along with the SE. I'm just saying ppl gotta stop using the "he playes in the East" argument and that's the end game for all skills arguments.
It's very juvenile to say that this is the sole reason why Grabner succeeded in the East.
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How many eastern games have you watched this season in their entirety?
ive probably watched 15-18 full eastern conference matchups with the last one being Caps VS lightning
i almost puked how gross the whole game was played compared to the west, players like grabner thrive in a turn over based system where 1-2 players are involved in a breakout, they get a chance, and the play goes the other way [the majority of eastern teams play a similar style to this]
very few teams play a puck possession game like which happens in the west, Grabner never broke into our top 2 lines the entire time he was here, whether that be bad luck or unfortunate circumstances, either way he never found a way to do it
MG saw that having another solid top 4 dman puts us closer to winning the cup than having a while speedy, undersized top 6 forward who showed a lack of finish for much of his stay in Vancouver
it wasn't whether anyone "won" or "lost" the trade, we acquired a piece to our team we needed to be closer to a cup, and grabner was never going to be that peice..
also keep in mind, the GM that put together the cup winning hawks also passed on Grabner, imo his current surge is more of an apparition than anything and i'm willing to bet anyone that he will not score as many goals next year as this year.