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Originally Posted by Caged Great
It doesn't take into account players who do certain jobs. Take Hamonic. He's a primarily defensive minded defender and his job is to contain and limit the other team's generating offense. His job isn't to create offense. Yet according to the advanced stats, he's mediocre.
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But if he does his job, and deceases the other teams offensive chances, shouldn't that result in his own team's increased offensive chances?
Now I understand if he always gest defensive zone starts, that's a difficult assignment, but analytics takes that into account.
At the end of the day, hockey is about creating offense for your team, and decreasing the offence of your opponent.
Being good at only one of those things probably won't make you a star. Analytics is likely responsible for identifying players who are only good at scoring and very poor defensively.