Well then, what do either Flynn or Mitchell bring to this team that we lacked? What positive contributions do either of them make on the ice?
According to natural-stat-trick, Mitchell has played 96 minutes for us. In that time, he's managed to be on ice for an incredible 120 shot attempts against, and just 47 for. That's a shot-attempt bleed rate that's... unfathomably bad. Even for us!
Flynn is barely any better. 64 minutes on ice, 87 attempts against, 42 for. At least we've managed to score 1 G while Flynn was on the ice.
These are two of the very worst sets of possession numbers
on the entire team. In fact only Malhotra's numbers are worse!
I know Therrien doesn't preach puck possession, he doesn't even believe in it. But when you take an already bad system, and add two
clearly sub-par players to it, you're just making the problem worse, not better.
We would've been better off never acquiring those two, and we'll be better off next season without them. Maybe they'll latch on somewhere else and stink up someone else's 4th line. Don't know, don't care. Neither of them are probably going to have long NHL careers.
