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Re: What's Up With Your Team? "No, it's not October yet" edition

From: (Anonymous)
Wilson said something very interesting there: I think Sergei Plotnikov is doing all the right things to better prepare himself for life in the NHL. However, this should not come into play when allocating his role on the team. Performance is the only variable that needs to be used.

Reminds me of an article I read this weekend, "Person, Player, Pineapple." It's from last May, and already most of the examples are out-of-date (Mike Richards, Patrick Kane), but it's basically about exactly that catch 22 that GMs now find themselves in with fans. Where, thanks to analytics, they're expected to only use a person's on-ice performance to evaluate their worth to a team and not take into consideration character etc. But then once they've built these character-free teams when there are serious off-ice issues, they're again criticized and excoriated for not taking character into account and booting the guys. And it's in many cases it's the same people complaining.

http://www.storiesnumberstell.com/person-player-pineapple/

Re: What's Up With Your Team? "No, it's not October yet" edition

From: (Anonymous)
Good article. Especially with the Mike Richards example, I always thought that it was in some way admirable of Lombardi to believe in his player but of course from a numbers perspective it was terrible. There must be examples of the opposite happening, but I can't remember any right now.

An example from my team, it's interesting to me how many more fans want to trade Kunitz than Dupuis even though they're both good but probably slightly overpaid wingers. But there's been so much emphasis on how important Dupuis is in the locker room, and it would look extremely heartless to trade him right now after the problems he had.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? "No, it's not October yet" edition

From: (Anonymous)
We also just watched Kunitz have a bad year while we didn't see Dupuis playing badly because he was mostly injured.

Re: What's Up With Your Team? "No, it's not October yet" edition

From: (Anonymous)
Also, Kuni's trouble was attributed in large part (rightly or wrongly) to a lack of heart/commitment, whereas Duper came tearing back from injury with a four-point night and when put out again still has a crazed commitment to keeping up training and getting back to the show.