funny how you say this yet you keep responding to me.
Do you ever get tired of deflecting? Why even post on a hockey forum if you’re not going to ever discuss hockey and just engage in “he said, she said!1!1!1” garbage?
I asked you to create an argument to back your claim up, and you just deflected as usual. Why even bother responding then?
Spamming the forum with your one liners.
Why does citing evidence make a valid argument laughable?
Lawyer: Judge I now would like to show the jury the security footage of the defendant attacking the victem in the parking lot
Jury: LOL the fact you are using security footage of the crime as evidence makes this case even more laughable
NO ONE is saying watch YouTube clips to determine player ability. The funniest part is people who are saying LOL VIDEO PROOF *CRYING LAUGGING EMOJI*!!!1!!1 are saying look at zone deployment stats and other advanced stats when it's a known fact that offensive defensemen thrive in advanced stats while there is no catagory that really elivates Defensive minded guys. CBJ fans had this argument internally over Murray and I think it was Nuti recently. Watching the games and extended highlights are the best way to determine a players abilities because you can actually see their skill with your own eyes and having information on their partner is also an extremely important note because chemistry/lack of, if they're playing on their natural side, if they haven't had a stable partner, etc...
Do you even understand how analytics work? If an offensive player is deployed in hard deployment he gets absolutely eviscerated. If you were to put a defender like Tyson Barrie and fed him ~55% defensive zone starts along with playing against tough competition his analytics would be absolutely awful.
If a player gets put in a tough defensive situation and his team out plays and out scores his opposition how could you conclude that this player is not good defensively? Again YouTube clips are an insanely ridiculous way to analyze players as you could make a highlight real for a guy like Sven Baertschi to make him look like a super stat, it’s just an incredibly skewed and cherry picked picture.