Here are two really good articles about the two most talked about "snubs".
Travis Yost debunks the notion that Bobby Ryan is bad defensively and doesn't produce on the power play:
http://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=56874
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Again, I'm always wary about using goal-based analysis, but a lot of these guys now have thousands of even-strength minutes. At some point, there should be an overlapping as to where shots translate into goals, particularly with years of data. As you might expect, most US guys are plus-percentage players at EV. But, even against the team average, Ryan's mere decimal points from the top-three here. If Ryan was the defensive liability Team USA's pegged him out to be here, why does it not show?
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Tyler Dellow discusses why Jack Johnson isn't very good at hockey and shouldn't have been considered in the first place:
http://www.mc79hockey.com/?p=6538
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Jack Johnson’s a pretty solid example of the latter type. Hockey people seem to really like him. He was drafted third overall. He was traded for a decent return to Los Angeles. Dean Lombardi gave him a lot of money. Columbus traded Jeff Carter for him. Still, the stats on the guy are amazing. Basically everyone who he plays with, he makes them worse. His teams invariably do better at 5v5 when he’s not on the ice. If Corsi% is too complex for you, this little stat is pretty amazing: of the 231 defencemen who played at least 2000 5v5 minutes between 2007-13, Johnson is 223rd in terms of his team’s share of the goals when he’s on the ice: 42.8%. There is nothing good that you can say about him. Not a thing.
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