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Leafs Acquired Raddysh [8 years, $8.5mil AAV]

Re: last few years of the deal, the cap floor next year is climbing to north of the cap ceiling from like 3 years ago. There will be teams in need for LTIRetired contracts to meet the floor without real dollars.
 
I've been holding off on getting to deep into this until he actually came here but I also really do believe that there's reason to think that Raddysh is more of a legitimate late bloomer than a true one-year wonder.

His breakout professional season came in 22/23 at the age of 26 when he went from being a 30-40 point AHL guy to putting up 51 points in 50 games with Syracuse.

His NHL rookie season in 23/24 came at age 27 where he recorded 33 points with limited powerplay time. He also led all Tampa blue liners in total 5-on-5 ice time that season, and was just behind Hedman on a per game basis. That's a lot of trust that Jon Cooper showed in a "rookie" defenceman (Tampa's defence admittedly had injury issues that season especially with Sergechev missing most of it).

24/25 was arguably his true "breakout" NHL season it just went under the radar. 37 points in 73 games, so on pace for over 40. But again critically this was with Hedman still (deservedly) entrenched in the PP1 spot. At 5-on-5 though 27 points in 73 games compared to Hedman's 32 in 79 games while Hedman averaged over 2 minutes per game more of ice-time. League-wide at 5-on-5 Raddysh's points per 60 minutes rate was 5th among all defencemen, behind only: Makar, Werenski, Dahlin, Fox, and Hughes. His assists per 60 rate was 3rd with just Dahlin and Fox ahead of him.

25/26 rolls around and 1) he starts to get PP1 time with Hedman out and 2) he starts to use that cannon of a shot of his significantly more often. In 23/24 and 24/25 he had a combined 16 powerplay points: in this season he had 26. In 23/24 and 24/25 he had a combined 209 shots on net: in this season he had 212.

So this is actually two season of him being in pretty elite company when it comes to 5-on-5 offence. I'm assuming that he'll likely come down from his close to point-per-game numbers from this season but I think there's reason to be optimistic about him still being a 60-ish point guy, especially since he's not exactly going to a team where he'll be surrounded with less offensive talent.

Also most critically it doesn't seem like his play in Tampa suggests that he's a liability in his own end. So even if the offence goes on dry spurts he'll still be providing value defensively and in transitional play.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
I've been holding off on getting to deep into this until he actually came here but I also really do believe that there's reason to think that Raddysh is more of a legitimate late bloomer than a true one-year wonder.

His breakout professional season came in 22/23 at the age of 26 when he went from being a 30-40 point AHL guy to putting up 51 points in 50 games with Syracuse.

His NHL rookie season in 23/24 came at age 27 where he recorded 33 points with limited powerplay time. He also led all Tampa blue liners in total 5-on-5 ice time that season, and was just behind Hedman on a per game basis. That's a lot of trust that Jon Cooper showed in a "rookie" defenceman (Tampa's defence admittedly had injury issues that season especially with Sergechev missing most of it).

24/25 was arguably his true "breakout" NHL season it just went under the radar. 37 points in 73 games, so on pace for over 40. But again critically this was with Hedman still (deservedly) entrenched in the PP1 spot. At 5-on-5 though 27 points in 73 games compared to Hedman's 32 in 79 games while Hedman averaged over 2 minutes per game more of ice-time. League-wide at 5-on-5 Raddysh's points per 60 minutes rate was 5th among all defencemen, behind only: Makar, Werenski, Dahlin, Fox, and Hughes. His assists per 60 rate was 3rd with just Dahlin and Fox ahead of him.

25/26 rolls around and 1) he starts to get PP1 time with Hedman out and 2) he starts to use that cannon of a shot of his significantly more often. In 23/24 and 24/25 he had a combined 16 powerplay points: in this season he had 26. In 23/24 and 24/25 he had a combined 209 shots on net: in this season he had 212.

So this is actually two season of him being in pretty elite company when it comes to 5-on-5 offence. I'm assuming that he'll likely come down from his close to point-per-game numbers from this season but I think there's reason to be optimistic about him still being a 60-ish point guy, especially since he's not exactly going to a team where he'll be surrounded with less offensive talent.

Also most critically it doesn't seem like his play in Tampa suggests that he's a liability in his own end. So even if the offence goes on dry spurts he'll still be providing value defensively and in transitional play.
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This is great, I assumed he was just the D on Kucherov's PP. Apparently, he's more than that.
 
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CarltonTheBear said:
I've been holding off on getting to deep into this until he actually came here but I also really do believe that there's reason to think that Raddysh is more of a legitimate late bloomer than a true one-year wonder.

His breakout professional season came in 22/23 at the age of 26 when he went from being a 30-40 point AHL guy to putting up 51 points in 50 games with Syracuse.

His NHL rookie season in 23/24 came at age 27 where he recorded 33 points with limited powerplay time. He also led all Tampa blue liners in total 5-on-5 ice time that season, and was just behind Hedman on a per game basis. That's a lot of trust that Jon Cooper showed in a "rookie" defenceman (Tampa's defence admittedly had injury issues that season especially with Sergechev missing most of it).

24/25 was arguably his true "breakout" NHL season it just went under the radar. 37 points in 73 games, so on pace for over 40. But again critically this was with Hedman still (deservedly) entrenched in the PP1 spot. At 5-on-5 though 27 points in 73 games compared to Hedman's 32 in 79 games while Hedman averaged over 2 minutes per game more of ice-time. League-wide at 5-on-5 Raddysh's points per 60 minutes rate was 5th among all defencemen, behind only: Makar, Werenski, Dahlin, Fox, and Hughes. His assists per 60 rate was 3rd with just Dahlin and Fox ahead of him.

25/26 rolls around and 1) he starts to get PP1 time with Hedman out and 2) he starts to use that cannon of a shot of his significantly more often. In 23/24 and 24/25 he had a combined 16 powerplay points: in this season he had 26. In 23/24 and 24/25 he had a combined 209 shots on net: in this season he had 212.

So this is actually two season of him being in pretty elite company when it comes to 5-on-5 offence. I'm assuming that he'll likely come down from his close to point-per-game numbers from this season but I think there's reason to be optimistic about him still being a 60-ish point guy, especially since he's not exactly going to a team where he'll be surrounded with less offensive talent.

Also most critically it doesn't seem like his play in Tampa suggests that he's a liability in his own end. So even if the offence goes on dry spurts he'll still be providing value defensively and in transitional play.
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Great work CTB! 💪
 
It's thrown around by NHL execs (Brian Burke for one) that it takes about 400 pro games for an NHL d-man to figure it out. Raddysh is around the 500 pro games mark (AHL/NHL). It could very well be a case of being a late bloomer.
 
The other thing about this is we've got a ton of cap space without any major contracts coming up for at least another 3yrs (McKenna). When you can acquire the best Dman in the UFA class and a piece the Leafs desperately need with essentially no acquisition cost then it's kind of a no brainer. I just hope they do have a plan when is play inevitably drops off in year 4+ of this deal.
 
A 20+ minute RHD that's a heavy shot threat was the most glaring hole on this team.

I feel for Berube a bit because Trelieving didn't fill that hole, and Berube had to use a bunch of left hand shots to cobble together the right side d-corps.
 
Frank E said:
A 20+ minute RHD that's a heavy shot threat was the most glaring hole on this team.

I feel for Berube a bit because Trelieving didn't fill that hole, and Berube had to use a bunch of left hand shots to cobble together the right side d-corps.
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The right side D was a complete dumpster fire last year. Possibly worst in the league last season.
 
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