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Originally Posted by koop
Yep, It's pretty much all BS like a lot of things in sports. Once it becomes commonly accepted that a guy is "clutch" any time he makes a big play in a big moment it will reinforce the belief, but when he fails in the same situation it will more or less be ignored.
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Yeah, it's perception bias to the max.
It's funny how guys like Datsyuk and Zetterberg are so clutch now, but pre-lockout they were considered big chokers. If they "learned" to be clutch why doesn't everybody else do it?
Or how the biggest choker in the world A-Rod carried the Yankees to a World Series a few years ago.
Playoffs are notoriously bad for small sample sizes. Just look at the NHL playoffs - the players going to the conference finals or further play around an average of 20 games. Look at the NHL scoring leaders after 20 regular season games and tell me if there's not some obvious names of guys you know won't be there by season's end. The difference is that if you do it during the regular season once it's just a hot streak and you get labelled inconsistent. If you do it in the playoffs once you get labelled "clutch".