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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
I think, based on numbers alone and nothing else, that you could just as easily draw a conclusion that if a team has poor on-ice shooting percentage when a player is on the ice would mean that player is a poor playmaker.
Not sure how much the data would support it, but I bet at Thornton's peak his teams on-ice shooting percentage with him on the ice was pretty high.
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Right but that's one player.
Backlund/Tkachuk/Frolik last year were a line with terrible on ice shooting percentages.
This year 2/3 of the line is back along with Bennett for a spell and it's the same thing.
So we can't blame Bennett for it ... you can't really blame any one player for a line's on ice shooting percentage. You can make an assumption based on what you see, but the numbers will never spell out who the culprit is.
But I was pointing out that three of the four guys that Bennett has spent the most time with this season are the last, second last and fourth last forwards on the team for shooting percentage.