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Originally Posted by edslunch
Advanced stats are interesting and I'm willing to believe there's something to them. But the advanced stats crowd seems to always ignore the other side of the equation, which is results. Monahan is getting results, regardless of his advanced stats. His shooting percentage may be high but that's going to happen when you put yourself in a position to redirect a pass into a wide open net.
A while back they were touting Backlund as the best Flame based on advanced stats which is great, but he wasn't scoring at all so the great stats resulted in nothing. Maybe they predicted great things to come like we're starting to see - like I said they are not totally meaningless - it just kills me when these guys only focus on the stats and discount the 'counting numbers'. News flash, the counting numbers count.
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Advanced stats should never be used to supercede visual judgements.
Monahan and his line are driving the play when they are on the ice. It's as simple as that.
Whether Monahan is going against Henrik Sedin or Mike Santorelli doesn't matter. Driving the play, scoring GWGs and not looking out of place during your first 5 nhl games is what matters.
There is zero motivation to send Monahan back right now from a Calgary perspective. All he does is give them more options in the trade market and to be competitive during the course of the season.
Dumb article. I don't have advanced stats on Lambert or what his bias is, but, from a visual standpoint of reading the article, he's out to lunch/off the deep end.