The Zetterberg Era
Ball Hockey Sucks
Wow. such numbers. so obvious. much Tatar.
Also, this bit in the comments was *hilarious*
Can the Wings hire an advanced stats guy already so we can stop this nonsense. We've been saying it and we've been saying it. Cleary is a flat out offense killer. He drains the life out of every line he touches. Meanwhile the numbers show the opposite for Tatar. Everywhere he goes, the line gets better. BUT GUESS WHO'S GETTING BENCHED FOR WHOM.
It is nice they show it to buttress the argument, but you don't need stats to make this statement. Watching the games does this, there is just so much evidence Cleary cannot hack it right now and probably never again given the way he is trending. But I would hope even hockey snobs that refuse to pay attention to advanced stats would come to the same conclusion. Cleary has been awful, he cannot possess the puck and he is where a possession goes to die.
Tatar shouldn't be benched, but telling him the turnovers are unacceptable is something we kind of knew was coming soon. He needs to value the puck a little better, just Cleary cannot be the example or the means through which Babcock tries to teach that lesson.