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Old 07-01-2015, 12:52 PM   #300
GranteedEV
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Originally Posted by ClubFlames View Post
Shhh, don't disagree! It's all about the stats you see on hockeydb.com and nothing else because comparing players like Frolik to Bollig to Jooris is totally fair. It's like when Niklas Hagman scored 11 goals in a season for us and our beloved Backlund scored 10. We all knew Hagman should have been on the team going forward.
Let me get my point across in one fell swoop because my original argument went off on a tangent:

1) Frolik is a knee-jerk signing to fix a possession problem that was essentially self-imposed. Not a bad signing by any means, but he's probably on the overpaid side for what he brings.

2) The players who do compose those possession problems are still on the roster and will continue to get playing time over stronger possession players. That's a problem and fixing it will go a longer way than throwing money at UFAs.

3) Named stronger possession player who gets called "inconsistent" yet produces consistently better possession, averages significantly more PK time than the players who are being favored ahead of him in the lineup which is a big source of possession problem (though that's only at forward, problem also existed at D but the solution found there made much more sense dollar for dollar). For an inconsistent player does pretty much everything on the ice better than Brandon Bollig except pick fights with other team's goons.

That's it. I'm done with this topic.
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