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Originally Posted by mrdonkey
Neal is a tire fire with 13 goals, which is how you win games. Lucic is a tire fire with 0 goals.
I really don’t get why you’re so hellbent on trying to obfuscate these basic facts when it comes to assessing player worth. They both suck, it’s just that one sucks everywhere and the other sucks everywhere except in one particular aspect that helps win games.
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Disagree with me all you want, but don't be a dick about it.
Obfuscate - render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible
James Neal is a terrible five on five hockey player. We saw that all season, it was the eye test. He's repeating that this year.
We can argue all day about eye tests, but luckily some independent people have built models that track contributing factors to hockey players that can actually summarize what we are seeing.
Neal's data supports the eye test. That's not obscure, unclear or unintelligible. The fact that he's been so bad that he's actually considered a net negative player despite scoring 13 goals is hilarious.
If you're look at hockey is as deep as looking up goal totals in the stats page, that's on you.