Quoting: AC14
I’m just confused how all of the hockey geniuses with rinks 2 blocks from their house don’t understand that every defensive opportunity is not 1 on 1. Measuring a defenseman used in an extreme shutdown role with partners who have never done it before and forwards who lack defensive responsibility for the large majority of the group versus the field is not similar. You can move the goal posts for every scenario but it’s still the same. Absolutely nobody in the NHL is put through the usage Parayko and Leddy have the last two seasons. Do I expect his underlying stats to be good? No, he’s on the far extreme of what the baseline is.
Well, we're supposed to defer to their inherently superior hockey knowledge, of course!
But yeah, the usage Parayko gets is downright sadistic. Now we send him out there half the time facing top lines along with the Blues 3rd and 4th lines. And he has been among the top few skaters on the ice in nearly every game this season.
But so what, right? Coz Dom, Mr. Subjective himself, who
tooootally never thumbs the scale (wink wink), said snide stuff about a player he never watches. I'm not sure he could pick Parayko from a police line-up. But he's the authority. Coz Toronto osmosis.
AND if you do not defer to these blind authorities, you are a Toronto "hater" then. Because fake victimhood is a debate TKO. Or something.