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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
My point exactly. These silly fancy stats really mean nothing when you do comparisons between players and actually apply the eyeball test. There is no one on this planet, outside of Edmonton, that is going to argue that McDavid or Draisaitl play defense, care about defense, or can even spell defense. These stats are BS and have been since Oiler fans started dreaming them up to claim Hemsky was a superstar, Horcoff was a number one center, and Conklin was better than Brodeur. It is sad how many people have been sucked into these empty measures.
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I do t mind advanced stats at all. But I find WAR to be pretty useless for hockey (versus say baseball).