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Originally Posted by Kovaz
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.
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My gripe is more with the entire 4th line taking up almost 6 million dollars of cap space. And of course the 4th line gets more D-zone starts, they're the fourth line, GG is a bad coach but he knows enough to not give your 4th line starts in the offensive zone.