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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Usage is absolutely a big factor. I don't think anyone looks at these pairings and sees the 20 best ones in the NHL. I was primarily taking aim at the assertion that Valimaki is doing something that basically anyone else could do in Arizona. Which, to this point, is not accurate.
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It is accurate if what Valimaki is doing can be described as ‘playing easy minutes against third and fourth lines’. Any NHLer can do that without getting burned too badly. It's against top forwards that one's stats suffer.
I don't know whether that's the case or not. That's why I'd like to see data on quality of competition.