Quoting: BeastModeUnknown
Ridiculous
First of all, nice haul for the Sabres. But, I will say, PHI fans are going to love Risto. Big D-man that can hit, put up points, play PP and SH. The "analytics" crowd really has no clue what they are talking about when it comes to Risto.
He was the Sabres best D-man and on top of that, the Sabres never thought to bring in any sort of "defensive-defensman", so by default Risto played the most minutes against the toughest competition while playing a large percentage of the time in the D-zone. Oh, and never had a good D partner.
In PHI, he will be playing behind Ellis. He can get 2nd pair minutes, where he really should be playing and most likely playing with Sanheim, easily his best D partner ever.
It will be funny to watch "the analytics" crowd come around this year and say, "Wow, look at Risto's analytics!" "He has improved so much!", when the truth is, the "analytics crowd" has no idea how to read the numbers.