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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
It just seems like a cherry picked stat where Lucic is still bad. Amongst 4th liners in that stat category, he would be well below average. Notable names below him in that category that I would take over him would include - Kaprizov, Terry, Nugent Hopkins, Hughes, Stutzle, Crosby, Suzuki, Bennett, Berniers, caulfield, Schwartz, Duchene, guentzel, forsberg, kyrou, Tkachuk, Konecny.
Even on the Flames he is the worst 4th liner in that category, the only players worse than him are Kadri, Dube, Mangiapane.
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Nothing cherry picked about it. First stat I went to.
4th liners generally don't score. none of them. So you look to what they give up. You can't look at actual goals against only or you may get some bad luck. So you go to expected goals against.
He's 287th
With 400+ players he's roughly 9th on an average NHL team.
Hell on the Flames he's 9th.
That's fine for a fourth liner in my mind.