Vesa Awesaka
#KeepTheSenate
- Jul 4, 2013
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Ceci struggled on and off all year and it had nothing to do with Cowen.
Nothing to be alarmed about, another young player just finding his way in the NHL.
However Vesa, you should know better than to quote a statistic that is marginally better than plus/minus.
I believe Cowen was something like -10 playing with EK early in the year, then ended up -1 over the rest of his games played (ended -11).
IMO Cowen should never have been paired with EK because he just isn't ready for top pairing time and because EK has the second highest GA On/60 on the D.
Where EK has the opportunity and offensive ability to normalize some of these statistics, a player like Cowen just can't recover.
Fact is a good player playing consistently with bad players will get hammered by Corsi, (Cowen had the lowest Rel QOT) while a good player playing with great ones will get a boost.
This is a massive flaw in the way Corsi is generally used right now and the experts agree with this and are looking for solutuions.
So this isn't to defend Cowen, I would be the first to say he needs to be better, but using relatively meaningless stats in isolation knowing how Corsi works is less than fair IMO.
Didnt Ceci get worse when paired with cowen? Didnt Karlsson boost Cowen's corsi?
The thing is cowen being on the ice for a lot of GA correlates with his corsi against and scoring chances against
Like i showed everyone gets worse when cowen is on the ice corsi wise aside from a few players