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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
For the stat test.
http://hockeystats.ca/game/2017020038
Well Stajan had the second highest 5 on 5 corsi on the team. Brouwer had the 5th highest corsi among forwards. Bartkowski had the 3rd highest corsi on the defense. Kind of suggests what you noticed what biased. Humans often make very biased observations. It's hard to watch a game from a neutral perspective and notice everything equally. If you're watching for the 4th line to be hemmed in you'll notice that. If you're expecting the 1st line to do well offensively you might not take note of whole shifts they have where they struggle to get established in the offensive zone.
That said as far as my eye test went I personally thought Bartkowski did have a surprisingly good game. I didn't see him turn the puck over much. I thought he moved the puck well and defended well. He deserved the praise, he played his minor role quite well. Those people who praised him noticed him playing well. And likely they aren't huge Bartkowski fans because not many people here are.
Basically when people say Bartkowski had a good night its probably because he did. Because the prevailing bias on this board is to think he sucks. Same goes for Brouwer. I wouldn't say Brouwer was strong but he doesn't look out of place on the 4th line whereas he did further up the lineup. |
The confirmation bias and focus on trivial errors by whipping boys is huge peeve of mine. Last night Stajan takes the puck on a breakaway during a PK, gets whacked and doesn't manage to score. To me, a shorthanded breakaway is a great play in and of itself. Yet he was vilified by a bunch of posters for not potting it. As if breakaways aren't about a 33% chance at best. Or where Brouwer was being fainlty praised and posters were on about a couple icings. Count how many guys iced the puck, for various reasons. Now if a guy skates to centre and dumps it in unchallenged from behind centre, fine, it's a dumb play. But icings have a lot of reasons - no one to safely pass it to so - reset; the guy up ice turns the wrong way and doesn't get the pass; and these days I see icings being called when the puck bounces over a teammate's stick (I think they need to revise icing).
The other side of the bias is that anything good is shrugged off - a guy is playing better but it's weaker opposition, or better linemates - or it's just ignored.