Wafflewhipper
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Dubas still very much pays attention to metrics.1. This team is stacked up front. It has the best 1-2-3 center combination in the entire league. Marner, Marleau, and Brown need to have big years scoring goals, otherwise the wing could look thin at times. You cannot count on Nylander.
2. Defense wins championships. However, in the NHL, your actual group of defence-men, alone do not win championships, it is a team effort. Is the Leafs defensemen good enough to support the forwards. I would say yes at the moment. They do not suck. Does that mean the Leafs can win the cup? Not exactly. The Edmonton Oilers had a really stacked forwards group in the 1980's. First time they got to the finals, it was 4 straight because they were not good at playing team defense.
3. The onus will be on the coach this season. His coaching will reveal who belongs and who does not. The coach will find out who is committed to winning, and who just wants to win. The way they lost game 7 last season, that was bad. They better learn from that.
4. The management team surprises. Just one comment on Dubas. Seems like he uses the analytics to get noticed, and once he wins the power struggle, he's himself, he's entirely old school. Signing Tarves is exactly what Pat Quinn would have done, and Dubas lead the charge. Draft shmraft as Cliff Fletcher use to say.
Well actually there is a advance stat up in a thread where it shows Tavares to be very elite at zone exits to the 96 percentile league wide. Ennis is very elite at it also at 89%.
So he is still looking very much at adv stays with his signings
I wish i could link it for you but i forget what thread its in. I will try finding it for you.
I found it. He explains yhe stat a couple post below his chart to another poster also. Its the Biotk post on page 17..https://hfboards.mandatory.com/posts/148777729/
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