Uh oh! I think I just read that Mojo is a - 22
He played for Seattle. Everybody is -22 on that team. The team is a combined -167. The top ten scorers on the team are combined -312. That's a -31 average
Mojo is a minus 49 over 11 years so...about a -4.5 annually, but realistically he was +22 over 7 years with the Caps and one of those years he was a -21.
Then he was a minus about everywhere else, but he played on mostly weak/losing teams at the time....NJD, BUF, MIN, BOS (-1), SEA. Granted he has trended in the wrong direction for the last 5 years.
And I think mostly he was Volcano bait here because he would not shoot and score. Like Mick said...IF he's filling Haglin's role, he can only be an upside in scoring (and doing so for $750k per year rather than 3 mil) then it's not a bad swap. Although, I think Hagelin is a better 4th line shut down guy.
We shall see, but as a comparison directly to Sprong for the remainder of THIS season, Mojo has more upside. (Next year is irrelevant cause very doubtful Sprong would be here - likely not MOJO either) Unless of course Hags eye injury is career ending, then you could probably sign MOJO for 1.5 or less (which is a $ savings over Hags) but Spronger was destined to be elsewhere regardless.
For the record, MOJO is a career .545 pts/game player. Spronger was .350 pts/game player over 7 seasons with PIT, ANA, WSH and never played more than 47 games in any year with one team. Hard to say with a younger guy and playing time, but that's three teams that he could break the lineup as a consistent starter for some reason.
Spronger's best total output year he put up 23 pts over 63 games (PIT/ANA). Last year he scored 20 pts in 42 games with WSH which is probably his bet year stats wise. This year he has 14 pts in 47 games. He has played 47 games of the 64 games with WSH so its not like he didn't get a shot to play. Three teams have sort of passed on him so...he has an issue of some kind.
Mostly I think the trade was made because they were done with Spronger and MOJO could possible fit several pending needs. And maybe Caps think Hags is done for good so MOJO even at 1.5 next year is a possible budget solution for several needs.
Two picks though?
even bottom picks. Makes me think they want him for longer than the remainder of the season.
Look at the bright side. We got someone to throw in the Volcano when the time comes.