Advanced stats aren’t prescriptive, they’re descriptive. They’re just telling the whole story. The eye test is unreliable, tells only a portion of the story, and is subject to the whims of unreliable narrators.
If hockey players don’t give a rats about advanced stats, which again, are just the story of what’s actually happening on the ice, I can guarantee they give even less of one about the “eye test” conducted by random fans and observers.
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