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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
This same article would be written the same way by anyone who looks at shot attempt stats as a good barometer for on ice evaluation. Most Flames bloggers agree and would have penned the same article
I get why fans of this team may get upset with the article, but it's a reasonable argument
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Yeah I get that Russell isn't very good based on analysis of these metrics and deserves critique, but there are quite a few players around the league who are worse (cough, Andrew Ference) - so why single out Russell, especially a guy who doesn't even cover our team?
This year for example, among western canadian teams, high profile players like Griffin Reinhart, Justin Schultz and Bo Horvat, all have worse fenwick ratings.
I guess what I take issue with is having an Oiler's writer given a national platform by the team's broadcast partner to do it.