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Originally Posted by dash_pinched
Spector wrote an interesting article about Kris Russell yesterday...
Based on a number of possession and shot metrics, the hockey analytics community has little value for Russell. Today in Edmonton, where Russell is playing out a one-year deal, the Fancy Stats community lives in fear that Oilers general manager Peter Chiarelli will “make the mistake” of signing the soon-to-be 30-year-old Russell to a four-year contract.
However, hockey people — defined as coaches, managers, players and scouts — have an almost unilateral respect for Russell’s gritty, hard-nosed game. The fact that the Oilers have stats that paint him as a premier puck-mover in the NHL exacerbates that opinion in Edmonton’s front office, where Chiarelli maintains access to different stats than the ones we’ve found today on excellent sites like Corsica and HockeyAnalysis.com.
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/k...ytics-critics/ |
Wasn't spector and the EDM media ripping Russel last year for the exact reason they are praising him now?