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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
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Several people have already commented on the stupidity of this, but I thought I would add some numbers to it. Here are the goals from the 5 players mentioned (and their ages), over the last 3 years (player, player, total):
Beleskey (27), Hayes (25):
14/15: 22, 19, 41
13/14: 9, 11, 20
1213: 8, 1, 9
Lucic (27), Smith (24), Hamilton (22):
14/15: 18, 13, 10, 41
13/14: 24, 20, 7, 51
12/13: 7, 3, 5, 15
So, while it's true that the incoming players had the same number of goals as that outgoing players last year (yes, we're ignoring all other facets of the game here), those same players were outscored 51 to 20 the prior year and 15 to 9 in the lockout year.
Now, one might rebut that the incoming players are younger and therefore prior years aren't as applicable. But that's not true. Beleskey is the same age as Lucic, Hayes is older than Smith, and Hamilton is the youngest of the lot.
If you look a little closer, what you see is that Beleskey and Hayes both had break-out (career?) years, while Lucic and Smith both had off years. To simply compare the numbers from that single year is beyond incompetent (or insulting).
And it
completely ignores the fact that Hamilton was a 21 year old stud defenseman.
This just screams of Sweeney finding a number that looks okay and throwing it out there, with the implied assumption that the audience is dumber than a sack of hammers.