Quoting: Flyers2000
This comment made me laugh. First off he hasn’t been better than Provorov, and even if he was, that wouldn’t be saying much cause Provorov has been downright abysmal this season. He actually hasn’t even been better than Ghost which is sad considering Ghost’s an offensive d-man. What makes him good defensively according to you? Is it his +/-? Cause that’s known to be the worst stat in hockey. Is it his hits and blocks because that would just make you ignorant. More hits and blocks doesn’t equal better defense it equals more defensive zone time because Hagg can’t make a breakout pass to save his life. His stats don’t look to bad, but if you look at analytics, the only reason they look even a tiny bit good is because he has the best puck luck on the team (that’s PDO if you actually do know something about analytics). Which d-man gets outplayed the most (CF%)? Hagg. Which d-man allows the most shot attempts (CA/60)? Hagg. Which d-man has the highest rate of scoring chances allowed (SCA/60)? Hagg. Which d-man allows the most high danger scoring chances (HDCF/60)? Hagg. There are 31 teams in the NHL. Each play 6 d-men. That’s 186 d-men. Plus whatever 7th D and AHL fill-ins they’ve played. Hagg ranks 181st. He’s a garbage player who’s gotten extremely lucky with his goal based results this season. If there is any team that completely ignores analytics and is stupid enough to give the offer you proposed, I’ll buy Hagg’s plane ticket myself
I’d like to point out that Ovi has a pretty low corsi %. oiSV% is a solid stat for tracking how effective of a defender one is. If it’s high, it means that you play a defensive style that allows goalies to see the puck well. If you have high blocks and a high oiSV%, then you are solid at knowing when the right time to block a shot is. If you have a really low GA/60 and the other numbers, then you not only block shots well, but you limit shots against as well. What those stats tell me is that Hagg and Gudas’s defensive style is one that limits the shots against to clear lane type ones. And apparently that suits the Philly goaltenders. Now it’s fascinating to me that he allows so many high risk opportunities but still allows very few goals against. I’m honestly not sure why that is, i just gave you my theory. I will give you one of my favourite statistics. To show why I think Hagg is solid. This is minutes played and how the team has done when Hagg has played different amounts of minutes. Basically Hagg is a perfect 2D. As long as he is kept to a defensive role he excells. When he starts to take time away from the top line and plays with top forwards, he becomes a liability defensively. But if he plays on the top line in a shutdown role he is impressive. It’s interesting that the team steadily scores more the more that he plays. He holds the D together enough that he allows other to play more offensively. When he doesn’t play much in a game, the Flyers collapse. Of course there are many variables, as there is with all statistics, but this gives you a general idea of how he affects team play. Keep in mind that he rarely plays any more than 1 special teams minute in a game, so these are completely ES minutes. 15-17 is the same as 18-21 for a special teams D.
11-14: 1-8-0 2.6-4.4 GF/GA
15-17: 12-5-2 2.8-2.5 GF/GA
18-19: 4-7-2 3.1-4.2 GF/GA
20-23: 5-3-1 3.2-3.3 GF/GA