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We don't know the details behind his personal medical situation and what the treatment is currently looking like - so it is speculation. They may have found a system that works for him, and the Flyers seem to be ready to play him next year.
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Good for the Flyers. They're ready to play him. Is Patrick ready to play? I'm sure the Canucks were ready to play Ferland too, but Ferland wasn't ready to play. Patrick hasn't played a shift for 17 months. He has a condition that is a day-to-day thing. The Flyers saying he is going to play come November is disingenuous. They can't determine that. Only Patrick and his neurologist can. And those two parties just finished saying he was not fit to play for over a full calendar year.
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Well this seems like a well reasoned argument. "Don't give a !@#$ about information, never will, so this is irrelevant to me" I mean...okay.
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It's not information to me. It's junk science. It's bad data pretending to be something it is not; consistent and valid. As a result they don't amount to a hill of beans. I mean, these amazing dreamed up stats were used to prove Ty Conklin was a better goaltender than Martin Brodeur. I have always been specious of these BS stats, because measuring players on shot outcomes is a bad way of measuring players efficacy who are forced to play under very different systems.
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Also, what lens are you viewing Voracek with that has you calling him a top ten RW? If you're just going on points, he isn't. He's 12th in actual scoring and 17th in points per game. He's also 31 and making 8.25M per until he's 35.
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I'm viewing him in the past three to five seasons. I mean, if you're just using this season, Nolan Patrick doesn't exist. I tend to look at longitudinal performance, and not fall in love with short stretches of poor or over performance.