You're right. It's just frustrating. Especially when you read comments like this:
Why don't you watch a Ducks game or read what Ducks fans/Ducks writers/National Canadian writers/Boudreau/Ducks teammates say about him before you make posts like this?
that's why I don't read comments like that.
People who make those sorts of comments, they aren't going to watch a Ducks game, they aren't going to watch a Penguins game for Heaven's Sake, they aren't going to read an article and they aren't going to look at advanced stats and have their minds changed.
If you say 'look at Despres fenwick and corsi in Anaheim" he'd be like 'yea, but he's playing with Fowler, on a better team!"
If you say, "look what the Ducks and their coaches and their fans are saying," he'd just say, "Yea, but of course they'll say that!"
If you say, "go back and watch Despres' earlier game with Pittsburgh, look at his advanced stats with the Penguins", he'd just say, "I trust my own eyes to make opinions, thank you."
If you say, "hey, look, he's playing 18-20 minutes a night, he had like 250 hits, 100+ blocks, and 23pts, all at even strength" he'd just come up with some other nonsensical, unarguable strawman.
The level of interest people like that have in sharing opinions, conversing, and being moved on a topic is less than zero. May as well talk to TteoT about Pascal Dupuis being a good hockey player.
