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Originally Posted by Inglewood Jack
for that multi-pronged player evaluation approach, Burke listed the eyeball test as highest priority, followed by a couple other things (sports psychologist and I can't remember the other), with analytics coming in 4th in order of importance. even Treliving chuckled and let Burke go into the expected rant, from which I got the feeling that the GM values stats a bit more than his boss does.
given how famous Burke's disdain for the topic is, I immediately felt like the question was troll bait especially because the guy basically phrased it like "so we hear lots about corsi nowadays and the flames suck at corsi, so what do you think about corsi? thanks and corsi." didn't sound like someone who actually knew anything about the subject. and the comment about Russell not being an NHL player according to analytics, I really hope Burke was just joking or being facetious, because that claim is not remotely true. I'm just going to assume for the sake of my own sanity that they have a statistics based evaluation model and they just don't like talking about it.
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Using shot attempts metrics, Russell is one of the worst regular defensemen in the league.