StefanW
Registered User
The analytics department is less important to us than our prospect development department.
We have less money to spend on and off the ice, that's the reality. We need to allocate our resources to wherever suits us best and in our case it's prospect development.
It would be great to have some form of analytics but it's rather meaningless of we don't have the funds to make competitive offers to UFAs.
An argument can be made that a team with a low budget cannot afford not to have an analytics department. Aside from big name UFAs, who get all of the attention, there are players with solid underlying numbers who below market value. Aside from that, decisions have to be made on who to re-sign out of our own players, and how much to offer in dollars and term. Then there is the day to day stuff with maximizing the way players are used in games.