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Originally Posted by butterfly
Fair. And yeah, I don't think we can make the assumption either but there's no tidy dataset to use to quickly analyze this.
People will complain about it too. For example, Treliving acquired Lindholm. Peters used Lindholm as a RW and Sutter used Lindholm as a C. So, did we have a RH C the whole time, none of the time, or part of the time? If coaching decisions trump management decisions then it becomes difficult to evaluate the goals of management.
Jackets used Laine at C at one point. Does that mean Laine is a C for the purposes of this exercise?
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Agreed on all that - it is difficult to isolate who are Cs and who are not.
For clarity, I agree with you about the original post: suggesting that Stanley Cup winning teams need a right-handed C is a stretch. Without doing the math, I would guess that the percentage of cup-winning teams with an RC (76%) is probably statistically no different than the percentage of all teams with an RC. In other words, no predictive power whatsoever.