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Originally Posted by Bingo
But if they truly went with the "don't mess with a good thing" mantra then Hanifin and Tanev would still be a pair.
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I guess a better way to say it, is "don't mess with a great thing".
Hanifin-Tanev were good analytically, but overall a very low-impact pair so hardly "great". What I mean by that is, even when they put up decent shot metrics, very little was happening in the sense of goal events:
2.11 GF/60
1.82 GA/60
Technically a plus pair, sure, but not exactly one that was moving the needle for us. So you can afford to break that up because it wasn't exactly "
magical". It was just... vanilla.
Contrast that with Gio-Brodie
2013-16
2.57 GF
2.28 GA (includes the Hiller disaster year and the Reto Berra year)
2018-20
2.93 GF
2.01 GA
So we were getting a lot more offense out of that pair. And offense is more valuable because goaltenders can mask even the more spotty defensive play, but they can't score goals.
Kylington-Tanev are good analytically, but overall a very high-impact pair so far.
2.77 GF
1.85 GA
This right here... until and unless their on-ice goal rate seriously regresses to "nothing is happening"... I wouldn't break apart. Offense is the toughest thing to generate, and they're generating it.