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Originally Posted by New Era
Yup, and Jarome Iginla was a piece of crap under Sutter, but a superstar under Keenan, right. His scoring stats were not quite as strong or consistent under Sutter because he was expected to play a two way game. Under Keenan he could do whatever he wanted and his stats improved greatly. Systems affect scoring, even with great players. It is not only unfair to use stats to try and say a player who plays under a defensive system is a weak player, it is down right stupid.
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Or maybe Iginla actually played worse, because of Jarome Iginla. It's not like he bounced back under Hartley. Most likely it's both. So quantify. How depressed are Jankowski's stats? If the stats don't sufficiently account for the quality of Jankowski's team, the answer is to get better stats, not to replace them with gut feelings, excuses, or "well Weisbrod said that in 10 years...". I'd rather go with the best stats we have than to simply say they're not good enough so screw it.