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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
You can't use stats to measure leadership and the characteristics of a winner. Actually you can by looking at which teams win in the playoffs more than not. It's not an exact science as you saw with the Penguins last year picking up Iginla, Morrow, etc for the playoff run but you need to have guys that can raise their game when it counts and there are a lot of great regular season players that can't pull that off.
960 spent the whole lunch segment talking about this. Must be a slow time of the year as this IMO is barely newsworthy.
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Doesn't your example basically show that there is no way to do this? The Penguins acquired two guys with an old reputation of being able to elevate their game (in spite of the fact that neither had played in the playoffs in years).
If there are all these players out there that can elevate their game in the playoffs, why aren't they doing it all season long? If they can just magically become a better player at will why don't they just do so and make millions more dollars?