Tampa Bay Season in Review: Advanced Stats Edition

[c_robio]

Considering Stralman put up almost 40 points this year, combined with yet another monster advanced stats year, it's hard not to call Stralman a legit #2, and he's got to be somewhere around the border of a #1. He had a bit of a bad stretch, but, over all, he took a huge step forward this year. With how young our team is, maybe it's a bit easy to forget that 27 is still pretty young for a defenseman, and, especially when you consider what a major change his game underwent a few years back, he very well might still be in the developing stage. He could be an absolute gem by the time he's 30. And then when you consider his cerebral, not-overly physical game, combined with his footspeed, he has all the signs of a defenseman who's going to have a very long prime.

Sometimes it's hard to believe how easily we picked him up.

I remember Tyler Dellow saying this guy would be the steal of the 2014 UFA class based on his possession stats

I know Yzerman was one of the First GMs to hire a strictly analytics guy so its something they definitely pay attention to. You can see the trend in the moves that are made

 

[Leonardo87]

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