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Originally Posted by Tinordi
Funny you should mention that.
Iginla's bad possession metrics were the canary in the coalmine on the trade him crowd. Were we ruthlessly manageing the Flames with stats and scouting we'd likely have identified Iginla rapidly deteriorating complete game and sold high on him 3 years ago. That's the utility of the stats.
But yes, Kotalik had a higher corsi, but was still the 10th ranked forward ahead of only 3rd and 4th liners (and Iginla). So uhh, what was your point?
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Amazingly that's what everyone is saying... that the Flames made a mistake and didn't trade him years earlier. And they didn't need advanced stats to tell them that fact.... they just looked at the calendar and saw 'oh frig the guy is getting old'.