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Originally Posted by ricardodw
1) Points are not goals.
2) Lines are not made of by sorting and parsing the scoring rate.
It would be far more valid that you would make up lines by ES TOI
Or even better the time that the line actual plays together. link
Try and find another team that is so dependent on one line. There is no other team that is even close in the 25% of ice time allocated to 3 players as a unit.
The Flames have 1 line and whatever line Mangiapane is playing is the second line however limited his line-mates are.
It is not a big leap to look at the Flames from the opposition POV and figure out that if you focus on stopping line # 1 that you have greatly improved your chances of winning.
11 games in the west and 2 wins in regulation. |
What a lame attempt. Why don't you do the work instead of just suggesting something is true without even looking it up.
The bolded is categorically wrong. There are 15 teams north of 30%, and the Oilers at 40%.
And if I use goals (trying to suggest points don't matter was equally lame) the Flames have the 17th highest goal concentration on their top three players in the league. 17th.
And if I move Mangiapane to the second line, which you wanted, that drops to 30th ... talk about barking up the wrong tree.
If I do it by total ice time, the Flames are 18th in concentration for time on the ice for the top three goal scorers and 30th if I flip Tkachuk for Mangiapane as you suggested.
You honestly couldn't be more wrong, which is fine, we all make mistakes, but you're suggesting things are facts without even looking into it is getting really tiresome.