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Originally Posted by edslunch
Monahan is missing. Besides that, i don't think these numbers mean much without context. I think it's a bit more meaningful to look at how the team fared with and without a player - like when Gio was injured. Even that is suspect - depends on who the opposition was, who else was injured, and a lot of other factors. And I think this is quite meaningless for players with few games - does anyone think Hanowski or Agostino had any real impact in the games they played?
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Chris Butler
TJ Brodie
Joe Colborne
Lance Bouma
Mikael Backlund
Brian McGrattan
Jiri Hudler
Sean Monahan
all played most of the Flames games. There would not be enough of a variance away from the flames overall .47 winning %.
This is a comparison of how the Flames played with and without Gio.
Over the year they were .47... with Gio they were .51 that means that without him they would have been 5-11-2 somewhere around .33 and within rounding error of being the worst team in the league. Sabres win % for the year was .32
Hankowski and Agustino Van Brabant and Knight played a few games games... They all went out , as should be expected from some young guys working hard and trying to make an impression, and made some hits.
Did this extra aggression (truculence) influence the outcome of the games they were in?
On the Flip side Granlund and Reinhart and Billins came up and played their skilled positional game (virtually no hits) and the Flames did poorly (even by the Flames standards)
It may have helped that Hankowski and Agustino, Van Brabant and Knight played their games with Giordano in the lineup.
If somehow Agustino or Hankowski starts the year (playing 10 minutes/game) and the Flames are 7-3 after 10 games do you think they will get sent down to make room for Granlund or Rienhart?
I also found it interesting that the Flames were really close to a playoff team with the same bunch of players just by adding in the
uninterested, floating Glencross.