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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/video/why-chia...nder%7E1204758
I had to go listen to it myself. About 42 minutes in is where he talks about Russell. The paraphrase by the poster above was a very poor one. Mackenzie asks about Russell and how come the analytics community and the people who watch the game disagree so much on Russell's value. What Chiarelli actually says is that according to the Oilers software and their own internal analytics is that they made a stat about zone exits and according to this Russell was one of the top 4-5 defensemen in the league at zone exits or outletting the puck.
The interview is interesting in that Mackenzie asks a lot of hard questions and Chiarelli stutters and "ummm"s a lot. Every time I hear Chiarelli, Benning and Treliving speak its obvious we have the sharpest one of the bunch.
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Yes, thanks for clarifying the quote and Coiler fans now taking it to the extreme that Russell is a top 5 defenseman in the league and that they got a bargain at $4 million per year!