Dr.Sens(e)
Registered User
I am not stabbing you nor is it intention to stab anyone else. I think I am too old for stabbing anyone here. All I am doing here is making a point that there was no justification of reducing his rating because of injury.
I just don't get it - of course there is a reason for reducing his rating beceause of the injury. He didn't play at all last year - which again, makes up the majority of the rating - so how do we base his rating purely off of that when we have no recent play to give him any type of elite rating? What about players who had good numbers two years ago, but an off year last year - should they have a lower rating than Sullivan, even though they put in a productive season, and Sullivan was absent? The fact he is now 34 years old now, and he put up those numbers when he was 32 also supports reducing his rating.
The bottom line is he is no longer considered an elite player and this was not just some arbitrary decision on the Admin Team's part. And yes, this is mostly because of the injuries. In fact, I just took a glance at a Top 50 and a Top 100 player ranking from two different publications, and Sullivan is not even in honourable mention for either. Is it your suggestion that publications like the Hockey News arbitrarily put their rankings together as well?