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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Unfortunately, and I'm not trying to be pedantic or obtuse, but individual stats don't count for anything in a league determined by wins.
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I agree on this point. It may be that I'm just addressing a side note to your overall point with the notion of adding context to the stats. Team stats ultimately figure in way more and I think we'd agree a team that goes 98-0-0 on 1-0 wins would be a more effective at the goal in the league (winning the Stanley Cup) than whatever run and gun team the Oilers are trying to build. Not to say you can't score your way to a Cup victory but a team should be measured on how the team did as oppose to how many 30 goal scorers the team had.
And this is a concern for players like Glencross on a team: it wasn't a problem for the Flames this year or last year, but it's still a net negative to sometimes have their contract on the books with no tangible effect on the ice because of injury...and it's also a net negative to have them playing below their peak ability at any point.
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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
This further speaks the point I made above. Chances are when he comes back from an injury, he's not up to 100% of his ability, so he's actually playing even more games at a less effective rate than his PPG would indicate.
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I think we agree here too. I would actually point to Glencross as an actual example of this: he hasn't looked at all useful on the ice this year despite a similar points production rate. In my opinion at least.