The Analytics community tends to value goals the same way 8 year olds do lol. Assists don’t matter to them and a secondary assist doesn’t matter either. The Oakland A’s and moneyball r a perfect example of how teams use analytics and how that changes over time. They prioritize players who are undervalued by the market and they dig deeper into why a player is succeeding or failing. It will be interesting to see if any NHL team tried to emulate what the San Francisco Giants are doing rn because they’ve gotten tremendous value out of older players.

I agree with that 110%. I’m sure Philly said they wouldn’t take Hornqvist back for similar reasons or just because they didn’t want his contract. But if you don’t move salary out it’s hard to justify those kinds of moves. Biggest issue with the JGP trade is Ottawa took 0 dollars and 0 cents back in the deal lol.

I really could not care less to be honest - it's just for fun

IK lol — I was just joking

You're also moving Monahans cap.

I think not adding Chychrun while they had assets was a mistake. He was clearly the better addition to round out their defense and Chiarot was clearly an overpayment end of the day.

Vatrano was a bit unrelated to the Giroux deal. The main reason they could afford Claude was because Ekblad went down

Whats your point?

What do you mean whats my point? Half the first is for Toews and the other half Is too move the ridiculous cap.

Lol keep him then. Find a better suitor. Monahan is a similar caliber player at this point anyways