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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
There is no such thing as a hockey stat that shows "who is a better player". That stat shows who has produced more points at even strength over the past 60 minutes, adjusted for ice time. In other words, it shows exactly what I said it showed. It also implies that the Sedins, at this stage, get a large chunk of their (still top-end) production on the power play, but you'd need to look at a bunch of other stuff to confirm that.
In any event, the disparity should make it pretty obvious that Brandon Sutter is a much less effective offensive player than Bonino, and that giving up a pick and a prospect and about $1.5M in cap space and a year of contract for him is laughable.
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More likely, and this is why you can't just look at stats
is this comes from playing against much lesser competition than Daniel and Henrik Sedin (and other top liners) do every night
last year Sean Monahan was 150th at pts/60 min, Gaudreau was 115th, Lance Bouma was 68th!, Alex Ovechkin was 107th
you can't cherry pick stats like that which dont tell the whole story or should Lance Bouma be getting top line minutes in Calgary ahead of Monahan and Gaudreau?