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Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under
The Bouma-Stajan-Ferland line is basically a line of players soon to be out of the NHL and is also staggeringly over-paid. Stajan is passable as an NHL player but even that is a stretch and I wouldn't care so much about a fourth line if it wasn't for the fact their collective cap hit is ~5.5 million dollars.
Anyways it's a new game. Time to put the agony of the last few games behind them. WIN!!!!
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Not sure I understand this. Head-to-head against the Tkachuk-Backlund-Frolik line, Bouma-Stajan-Ferland starts in the D-zone more often, wins 5% more faceoffs, and allows fewer shot attempts/shots/scoring chances any way you slice it. In fact, when you compare Stajan to Kopitar, Toews, and Kesler he's got easily better defensive stats with more difficult deployment, and he's neck-and-neck with Bergeron (identical expected goals against, fewer shots against, more shot attempts against).
Of all the players to complain about this year, Stajan deserves to be right at the bottom of the list with the 3M line.