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Originally Posted by Textcritic
The only statistics you have countered with have been scoring totals and plus/minus—regarded by many (most?) to be the most worthless counting-stat in use.
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The only arguments your camp has been putting forth are the "most people do this" or "most teams don't do that" kind of arguments.
Sometimes the wisest things in life are unpopular things.
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by itself can often times be an unreliable stat, but when combined with other considerations such as, how does yours compare to your D partner and others on your team, and what is your GA/60, etc, it actually is a reliable indicator of a defenseman's play.