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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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You needed advance stats to realize that a player in his 30s was getting worse?
Kotalik wasn't better than Iginla in 2010. Are you arguing differently? If so, I guess that's all we need to know.
But if you concede that Iginla was a better player than Kotalik, why was his Corsi worse? Why is Kane's Corsi worse than Bickell's today?
Did the Flames win the Phaneuf trade because of White's impressive advanced stats? Why did Phaneuf just get a 49M contract and White isn't in the league then?