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Originally Posted by JayP
He scores more when he plays on Team Canada's All-Star team - the same thing could be said about basically hockey player on earth.
The whole "Doughty could score more if he wanted to" argument is such a farce. Wherever you land on this debate, the idea that you can discount Karlsson's massive offensive edge because of a hypothetical scenario is ridiculous. Karlsson is scoring at a historic rate for defensemen relative to his peers, but Doughty could apparently do it too easily if he wanted. I mean, he only has 123 points versus Karlsson's 208 points in the last three systems - systems account for a 40% drop in scoring, right?
If Doughty could score more if he wasn't in such a defensive system, why doesn't he get penalized for looking better defensively when he's surrounded by more responsible defensive and better overall players? It's the exact same baseless argument.
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Were you a Flame fan during the Sutter days? It's pretty obvious that the guy prefers a structured defensive game instead of a run-and-gun style of hockey that Ottawa plays. It's just like how J.Bo looked like a complete waste of money until Hartley's system allowed him to start pinching into the play and being the 4th forward on rushes.
It's so damn obvious that Doughty would score more on probably 3/4 of the other teams in the league. But run-and-gun hockey is not the way to success even if it's fun to watch. Ottawa has been known to let in tons of goals in recent years. It's always risk vs. reward in those systems and they don't work in the playoffs when every mistake is amplified. Ottawa's lack of playoff success shows that.