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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Lol at FDW again just saying things. I picture you wearing a wooden placard on a street corner with a cup full of pencils shouting the virtues of Drew Doughty.
Why would he need to get injured for us to run this test? The Sens already spend just over 50% of their games without him - he plays about 29 minutes per game. There's information available on various websites that track each player's stats when playing with Karlsson and playing without. All of that information suggests that most of the team is a train wreck without him, not more responsible defensively.
For example, the Sens are the worst team in the league at giving up shots five on five, but they give up fewer shots with Karlsson on the ice than any other Sens defenseman. He ain't the problem there.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
That would be pretty odd; "we're playing X system with this guy but once he's off, change the system"... I don't think so. The team looks different with EK on the ice because when he's on, everything runs through him. So I don't agree that it's a change in coaching strategy, except to the extent that Cameron probably gives him a pretty long leash to do his thing.
Even if you were right though, that would suggest the coaches should be fired immediately, because it would mean that they change the way the Sens play when Karlsson gets to the bench so as to be more defensively responsible, only to see the team get worse defensively and give up even more shots and scoring chances. Ouch.
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You've argued against yourself here.
EE was saying that the Sens would possibly be a better team without him because they would play a different system.
You argued that they already play half the game without him (which totally misses the point, and it doesn't work that way), then you argue they aren't going to change the system for half the game.
Well of course they're not, that's the point. When he isn't on the ice, they play the same game. But that game is designed around him. So of course they are going to be worse at it when he isn't on the ice.
What EE is saying is that the Sens would be a better team without him because they wouldn't play that high risk style - they would in fact play a different system.
The bottom line is that great players make their team better. Karlsson doesn't not make the Sens better. They have been building around him for several years and they have exactly the same issues that they have always had. He's a point producer and nothing more.