Quoting: WhatsaMaattaWithYou
Hold on a minute. On other threads you were supporting Jack Johnson saying he's serviceable and on an ok contract. Now you are saying otherwise. On top of that you are defending a player (Maatta) who was scratched 3 out of 4 playoff games over a player with arguably one of the worst possession analytics stats in all of hockey (Johnson). A player that's so slow, a 70 yr old with a cane could beat him in a foot race and makes panic decisions with the puck because he shies away from being hit.
The whole +/- stat is outdated and again, you keep using "old time hockey" argument points. Your opinions are yours alone and you have every right to believe whatever it is you believe is the truth but to keep arguing with everyone on basically the same subjects over and over again is a bit silly.
I have stated multiple times that JJ played horribly on the right side. He has no business there and it showed. He was only there because Schultz got hurt and they had no one else capable of filling that role.
So I don't really see how that's contradicting anything. At no time should those two players, and frankly and two LHD be on the ice together. It screws up the whole team because it's very hard to back hand a puck across the ice and that limits your ability to exit the zone and generate offense.
So I don't really get how you think that's a contradiction. You act like I haven't pointed out how annoying it is when people list TOP 50 each position and then they list Defense instead of LHD and RHD as if they are interchangeable and it doesn't matter.
The +/- stat means a lot when you play on the right and it's a -20 and when you play on the left and it's a +16. I think you can figure that out.
JJ takes a lot of heat, some of it is deserved other times it isn't. Like when his coach leaves him on the RHD side, and his line mates pinch leaving him exposed.