Quoting: Logan_Ollivier
Brodie
Huh. What did I say again?
Quoting: Viqsi
Per said measurements, the only blueliners that are any good defensively are two-way guys
Huh. How about that.
As for the rest - you're continuing to focus on events. The team gets a lot of shots against when
anybody at all is on the ice here. There are a lot of high danger chances when
anybody at all is on the ice here. Because
no one single guy can handle defending for the entire team. Every single of those stats are correlations that have as a built-in implicit assumption that the rest of the team is at least playing a consistent NHL-capable style and at least attempting to do their part without completely ****ing it up. Columbus
cannot do that right now because there is no defensive system working - folks are still trying to learn and constantly failing - and so all our defenseman, in advanced stats, look like horrible trash compared to their actual ability. Especially the ones that get the most time and deployments.
Every defensive advanced stat out there presumes that there is a system, and measures everyone's contribution within that system. When there is no system, there's nothing useful to measure.
Put him on a different team and I guarantee you, per stat-wtaching, suddenly he'll miraculously look like a solid top-4 guy out of nowhere.