Why does everyone want [aging veteran who has at times been struggling and been made expendable by young stud at his position]? I would want [young stud who is a key part of the team’s future and absolutely not available] instead.
Why would anyone would want Kapanen? I would want McDavid instead
Yes, I'm quite a bit better informed than you simply because I don't accept "trust me, bro" as a legitimate answer.
As time goes on, what teams are willing to give will be less and less as her gets older and more expensive. There might be a sweet spot of cost left in contract if his play holds up that he hasn’t hit yet and they are maybe waiting for that. It’s a gamble.
You’re not getting a laugh emoji from me, because it’s just boring. You’ll just have to continue to cope with having to live in a world in which goalie coaches, consultants and scouts exist and get employed by professional teams and aren’t being made expendable by excel jockeys who lack the fundamental understanding of the position to correctly interpret numbers.
And those positions have proven infallible in goaltender analysis, right?
Just a goalie, at this point. I’m not allergic to excel, so I appreciate those stats coloring some of the outlines of the pictures I’m seeing when I watch other goalies. Feel free to argue with others on a purely statistical or otherwise superficial level, but you should at leastleast understand the limitations of the statistical translations of the game and not imagine to be sitting on a much higher horse than it is.
So why would I take your opinion with any authority? Especially when it flies in the face of every objective piece of evidence out there?
I don’t give a crap whether you do, that’s beyond my sphere of influence. But you’re talking about an activity you know nothing about, and, realizing that, you use numbers as approximations to help you understand it. There’s nothing wrong with using that data in the first place, but if you don’t get how knowing stuff about the position might actually be meaningful, I don’t know what to tell you.
Use the ignore function.
The idea that I, as a goalie, would just have to find it necessary to convince one random fan with zero knowledge of the position just reeks of an unhealthy dose narcissism on your end. You’re not the numbers‘ spokesperson, you’re just a guy not understanding what they’re telling you and what they don’t.
I asked you to explain to me why the numbers are wrong and why you posses expert knowledge on the position. You can't provide either yet accuse me of arrogance for using objective numbers. That's hilarious.
Just a small detailed correction. He has 2 1/2 years remaining (not 3 1/2) which is getting closer to being “easier to move”.
A) No, you didn’t. You highlighted a part of sentence and asked why you should care about my opinion.
See - now you’re asking to explain. I don’t have much time left, but Gibson is a good and somewhat extreme example of how statistically equal shots aren’t statistically equally impacting a goalie’s stats. Gibson‘s main weakness, compared to most modern goalies, is lateral mobility. He’s good (probably closer to elite) on first shots, great angles and reflexes, works well through traffic, good rebound control. But if your defense is prone to allowing cross-ice passes near the hashmarks or below, he’ll tend to leave more net exposed than most. Considering the (expected and factual) SV% on first shots is high to begin with, there’s not much ground you can statistically make up on these shots. If you’re playing on a team that struggles to prevent plays where you underperform the statistical expectation, that’s going to create a problem for your statistical bottom line - and the team’s success.
Every teams offense has become about seam passes, it’s the hallmark of this generation. The recognition and execution of it is something these guys have been raised to spot/create/exploit when for a long time that was a euro specific trait. Every teams pp is designed to pull guys out of position to get a seam pass. If you’re telling us Gibson doesn’t have lateral mobility and is vulnerable to the one offensive trait everyone is striving for (and many are achieving) you’re telling me he is not a goalie anyone should be going after currently. You can say that’s a defensive problem but I don’t think there’s such thing as a defense that can completely negate cross ice seam passes. That’s why they work.
