Quote:
Originally Posted by ricardodw
It is not the average grit on the team.... it is the number of softies on a team.
That Edmonton has a higher RGR overall does not at all compensate for the fact that they have 7 soft players.
This has been Edmonton's plan over the last 4-5 years... to get overly aggressive players, Sortini, Eager, Macintyre, to protect their abundance of soft players.
The most soft players that you can have is 3-4. After that the team is too soft and unbalanced to compete.
This is simple logic. Don Cherry/Scotty Bowman/Quenville and successful coaches knows this fact intuitively... without statistics.... too many soft players will ruin a team.
Last year there was one team with more than 4 soft players to make the playoffs... Detroit with 6. Detroit has since gotten rid of 2 of their softer players: Fipulla and Brunner,
The most the top 7 teams had was 3 soft players. SJ, Minn and Vancouver and Ottawa made the play off with 4 soft players
|
But using RGR, McGrattan would be considered a soft player...