[Flashpoint]

Always appreciate the detailed write ups and analysis.

I wanted to ask something of the CP collective as regards advanced stats.

Would Kent Nilsson have been considered an advanced stats darling?

He's always sort of represented for me the epitome of a guy with all the talent in the world (and who could directly apply it to the scoresheet), but also a tin-man who couldn't / wouldn't do it night in night out.

When he was traded during the offseason it effectively removed (IIRC) 98 points from our lineup. Not utterly dissimilar to losing Hamilton as a top NHL point producer for D.

Yet it was in the subsequent years that we became an elite franchise. I have to wonder what the advanced stats folks would have made of the deal at the time.

Anyway, it's been kind of bugging me - the "intangible" aspect, or "addition by subtraction", and I wanted to know the takes of the people here.