I love underlying stats, they're not all encompassing, but they take a lot of opinion out of things and replace them with counts ... which I like.
But they don't measure everthing.
Zadorov's numbers are actually quite good, sheltered or not, but I have to believe having two big third pairing defenders that play the body and stick up for teammates has a role in the identity of the Flames and how teams play against them.
Same with Lucic up front (and to a much lesser degree Ritchie).
If the bottom of the roster is a complete pain in the ass to play against it must create some tough slogging for the opposition.
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