1. Again, as always, you show an inability to handle any nuance. Again, as I said before, I agreed that Petey didn't look great. My contention was that the only evidence people were showing (at that time, and it was true), was pure boxscore stats. And that's what was happening. I asked someone for non-boxscore evidence and they literally repeated plus/minus and points back at me.
Again, I already addressed this, and as far as I can tell, you never replied, but if a player looks bad, and his counting stats are bad, then if posters point out that the player looks bad and reference his counting stats, why should the onus be on them to provide any further evidence? If the player looked good but the counting stats were bad then I would agree with you.
2. Preceding this "mystery slump" you were talking about, it was well known he had some kind of serious wrist injury.
He seems to have been taping his wrist for some time, through both good and bad stretches of play.
Also, just visually, it looks like Petey can barely move at times, which again, suggest injury rather than malaise. There are time when it looks like he's trying to take off, but just can't. That appears more physical than mental.
He looked this way in the last slump too, and during the last slump, lots of posters speculated that he was injured as well. And again, Bourdreau - who would have known if he was injured in the last slump - was pretty unequivocal in his opinion that the last slump was a result of confidence, and notably, didn't mention any injury. And again, his opinion was that confidence was causing this slump.
I could easily flip it around? Why are you so confident it's not an injury?
Well, I had said that on a balance of probabilities (i.e., 51%+) it thought an injury was not the primary cause for Pettersson's play. I think its pretty hard to be overly confident either way when we aren't privy to all the data. But with that said, there just isn't any evidence that he actually is injured other than simply speculating that he looks bad, and therefore, must be injured.
But I do think Boudreau's opinion on this matter should be weighed heavily, and frankly, I'm surprised you can have any level of confidence that injuries are causing his struggles given that Boudreau has expressly stated his view that Pettersson's confidence is causing them.
Are you Petey's sports psychologist? You're just speculating like everyone else, except doing so with some pseudo-psychiatric assessment.
I'm not speculating as to what the cause is. I took issue with the contention that injuries are the primary cause as there isn't any meaningful evidence that injuries are causing his struggles. Boudreau, of course, is speculating, but he obviously has way more information and insight into the matter and is in a position where his speculation should be given quite a bit of credence.
Again, its crazy to me that people would prefer, or feel it is more likely, that injuries are causing Petey's struggles (without any real evidence of this) over the opinion of his former coach who coached him through eerily similar struggles.
