After the Penguins traded for Marcus Pettersson yesterday by sending Daniel Sprong to the Anaheim Ducks, GM Jim Rutherford mentioned that he could be a Brian Dumoulin-type player. Using advanced metric data that was aggregated and visualized by Sean Tierney, let’s take a look at where Petterson stood among Anaheim defensemen before being traded.
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In terms of Pettersson’s value to the Ducks using Goals Above Replacement, he has not had the best start to the year. You can see that he has really provided basically only negative value.