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Originally Posted by Bingo
I think Brouwer was a carless signing too. I got it ... he fit the bill for a lot of what they were looking for, but a quick look into his underlying stats showed he was getting filled in with Washington and didn't have the counting stats to make the signing worthwhile.
Seems like we see this in Canadian markets ... teams trying to get someone to sign so they overlook the warts.
The Oilers with the Cecis etc, Vancouver with some of their blueline signings in recent years, Calgary with Brouwer and Neal.
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The questions this raises, which I think you've brought up in the past include:
- is the team leveraging advanced stats but ignoring and to what degree?
- how is that applied to decision making including relative to the views of pro scouts
- are there/have there been voices or information provided against some of these moves (e.g. the Brouwer and Neal signings) and were they simply ignored?
Basically is the decision making flawed, or are the inputs into those decisions flawed.
Hard to tell.