Yeah it seems commonplace for most advanced stats guys to really hammer defensive defencemen. It suggests there's something missing in the analyses.
Even the ability to isolate the impact one defenceman has at both ends of the ice when the chemistry they have with any other potential D partner seems very difficult.
Kevin Woodley talking about their systems that can evaluate how hypothetically plugging a goalie into another team's defensive system and project how they would do is really interesting. Seems like an almost impossible task to do as accurately with skaters.
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