";s:4:"text";s:2871:" As a straight up deal this is absolutely terrible. Maybe. An early-season experiment at centre was a disaster. The NJ players that have spoken up couldn’t believe he was traded.
Full stop.Hall is close to being peak value.
Conner stays back home and demands a trade .
Chiarelli has a history of getting locked in on a player and paying any price to obtain him (see Lucic, Russell, Reinhardt and, of course, Larsson).
By the sounds of it no stone was turned.Larsson was selected in the first round, fourth overall,[1] by the New Jersey Devils during the 2011 NHL Entry Draft.
Our D was bad. Just look at the comment section post game should give you some ideas…But, really, it only stings a little. When you look at his underlying metrics he is about a good in EDM as he was in NJ, just this year his PDO was very high.You act like you forgot about Drai.If the coaches were so smart why didn’t they reach out to him like Haynes did in NJ.Hall actually did play well with McDavid. They do not have a comparable defenseman.If there’s a team exec out there who is just now hearing Hall was available, that exec should be fired.Taylor Hall has been traded to the New Jersey Devils straight across for Adam Larsson. They traded away the Hall that was in New Jersey the first year. Hall used to have great numbers against eastern opponents so by actually play against them more often will lead to his breakout season (granted that Hall wasn’t very good last season but his C was Zajac and this season is Hischier). It was a horrible trade the day it was made.