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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

MindzEye said:
It amazes me that there are people who still think he's some sort of statistics driven hockey executive. The spreadsheet didn't tell him to trade for Karlsson and trade Guentzel away.
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At the same time, Dubas’s fetishization of cardio merchant depth players is very much an analytics-driven tendency, no?

Seems like all of the biggest nerd stats guys on Twitter adore Engvall/Jarnkrok-esque players that are soft as melted butter and skate around a lot but make absolutely nothing happen in either direction of play when they’re out on the ice.

That’s not to say that Dubas didn’t deviate from a stats-driven approach with his pivot to toughness and leaderbeans acquired with excessive draft capital. It’s almost like he cooked the worst aspects of an analytics-driven approach and the old-school hockey approach into a thin, rancid stew of perpetual failure.
 
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They, and everyone else Dubas added, were all good at limiting xGA. Acciari, Amadio, Kerfoot, Engvall, Rodrigues are all positive (negative) rel xGA/60 over the last 3 years. And Kampf used to be one of the best at that. ZAR was one of the best for years.Krok was good to before the got him.

I don't think those were eye test guys. Its too big of a coincidence that all of their forward additions were good at the same stat.

But using stats doesn't mean you aren't stupid, or know how to build a hockey team.
 
Regular season really only important in division, given that there are usually a couple divisions with absolute tanked teams that skew the point totals in the league standings.
 
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