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Yea but what is his xtruculence60? Apparently this is the only stat that matters when evaluating how good a defenceman is at playing "defence".
funny but kid is pretty dang truculent too!
Yea but what is his xtruculence60? Apparently this is the only stat that matters when evaluating how good a defenceman is at playing "defence".
Hunter joined the Leafs Oct 2014 , Nonis and the scouts were fired Apr 2015 .
I like Carrick but he loses a lot of battles in the corners and has trouble with coverage from time-to-time, or at least it looks that way to me. Wish he were a little bigger.
Edit: Just noticed in the Pre-GDT thread that Gardiner and Carrick have one of the best possession stats in the league. Could shot-differential statistics like CORSI not look better due to superior possession numbers? I'm asking because Gardiner and Carrick seem to me like solid possession guys but below-average defensively; Gardiner worse than Carrick in that department as well.
So which is it?
carrick looks even better statistically when you hone down on scoring chances and high danger chances.
I'm sorry, but I really don't understand the usage of stats to prove a player is playing well/bad 8 games into the season. Considering how important sample size is for statistical analyses, shouldn't we hold off on using them when we're only 8 games into the season?
Since it's so early in the season, any one of a hundred variables could significantly affect a player's statistical output:
For corsi: A small change in zone starts, competition quality, passes that should've been shots, quality of shots, etc.
For high danger chances: Unless you analyze every shot, really hard to determine if a high danger chance is really high danger... Not all shots in the "high danger area" are dangerous shots and every shot in the "low danger area" isn't always an easy save.
* A few more missed passes from the opposition when Carrick was on the ice could have caused a massive change in corsi% over an 8 game sample size. You also have to consider that corsi and high danger chances could be contributed to which forward group is on the ice.
There are way too many variables and stats like these are practically useless over 8 games. In addition to using things like Corsi and high danger shots against, you should also use other stats to give more context. I would argue that a big reason that Carrick's high danger shots against are so low is because he is being used in an offensive situation with more offensive zone starts. Over an 8 game sample size, you're going to see that have a significant affect on corsi and high danger shot attempts. It will still be a factor over 82 games, but over 8 games I think it stands out even more.
So good. And he hasn't been shown his true worth, his offensive abilities. If anything, he's been fairly unlucky in that department.
He's not going anywhere anytime soon.
Guy has been our best possession defenseman, but holy **** does his style not work with Marincin. He really needs to get back with Jake.
It's a development year for the leafs defence. I'm okay with developing the chemistry between Marincin and Carrick as they will be our third pair moving forward.
Reilly _______
Gardiner Zaitsev
Marincin Carrick
Valiev
This defence will look exponentially better with a few years of seasoning and a big time UFA to push everyone one spot down the depth charts... like Burns.
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I like Valiev's game. Also think that that #2 needs to be addressed much more than the 3-7 spots.
Guy has been our best possession defenseman, but holy **** does his style not work with Marincin. He really needs to get back with Jake.