this..people are funny, yes the lines with Geno worked, cause Geno was just that good...and Sid had probably one of his worst stretches in his career... 100 percent agree
Did you actually read the conversation that started all this?
@Jesse wrote an article about why Malkin and Zucker should be good together. I mentioned it.
Noted in the article that Jesse linked a chart showing the Pens most and least analytically productive lines based on minutes played.
Chart showed Jake-Malkin-Rust was a killer line, which confirms what everyone said.
Chart also showed that Zucker-Crosby-Simon was the Pens one ANALYTICALLY bad line. I said that surprised me given the narrative and my own opinion that Zucker and Sid looked good together.
@pixiesfanyo noted that Zucker-Crosby-Sheary was the good combo. Jesse noted they didn't play enough to chart. I noted that Crosby's and Zucker's individual ES production were no different in the games preceding Sheary's acquisition compared to following it. I also noted that I didn't have possession metrics handy. That was it. No verdict either way.
That's NOT a criticism of Zucker. That was not a criticism of Crosby. It was not a criticism of them together.
All anyone did here was me noting that the chart Jesse provided showed that Zucker-Crosby-- with Simon at least-- was analytically a bad line and that gave me pause because I 'saw it' otherwise.
