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Originally Posted by Bingo
The need to disparage Hamilton is just insane in my mind.
He's not physical ... won't argue that.
Too many stick infractions ... won't argue that.
But there are 77 NHL defensemen that played more than 1250 minutes last year.
In that group of 77 Hamilton is ....
2nd in CF%
2nd in Shot differential
34th in goal differential
3rd in scoring chance differential
2nd in high danger chance differential
Someone above mentioned he gives up too many scoring chances.
he gave up the 12th least of the 77 in scoring chances against
he gave up the 10th least of the 77 in high danger chances against
he was ranked 56th in on ice shooting percentage and
62nd in on ice save percentage suggesting he was somewhat unlucky last season to be honest.
He's not going to wear the "C", but call him what he is ... a very good top pairing defenseman and at that age he's a unicorn.
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Bingo I appreciate all of these stats. Praising them and reverting back to the luck argument however is not quite enough.
Consider how the Flames advanced stats translated to success. It didn’t.
Remember that 10 game run, outshooting teams on average approximately 40-28, being outscored by 16 and being 3-6-1? The whole team had great stats on that run except where it mattered. And that is what people care about.
Big, huge, giant asterisk which frankly can not be brushed aside. There was something systemic about the play that did not work.