Rarely is the line with the puck the one getting more tired. Somehow because Dorsett throws a hit or two it makes them more tired? Nah. Don't think so. Bad possession players make their own team tired not the other team.
And Tiranis...I agree regarding Etem. Really it's why his fast skating and excitement end up not amounting to anything. The bulk of the time he's spinning in circles in his own zone. Now the jury is still out with regard to his play on the canucks of course but his history is what it is. It's like the excitement with bartkowski the first couple of games because he flew up ice with the puck a lot. Sure he does. He's also terrible defensively and gets hemmed in his own zone constantly.
Possession numbers go down the toilet when you chip, chase, hit, and grind. I am not suggestion that possession is not good; hell, I have been coaching a possession game since I began coaching. Every good junior team I ever played for played a possession game, and every championship team I ever played against was a possession dynamo.
It does not mean that a player holds no value if they don't possess that skill. When I scouted with the Hockey Canada program, this is one of the very skillsets we put a lot of value into when assessing a player's talent; at least to determine what type of player they were and could become at the next level. I am a huge believer in the possession game, which is specifically why Torts drove me absolutely nuts as a coach.
If you look down the roster of every championship team in the NHL, they have players with bad possession numbers, but they are effective in what they do. Now, if we are having an argument about the misuse of poor possession players, which I believe is the case in Dorsett, that turns into a completely different conversation.
As for Etem, what I do agree with, is that with his style of play, if he wants to be a scorer, he will have to raise his possession numbers to be an effective player on the team. If not, he will have to change the way he plays.