It sounds like frontsfan67 you are only looking at players who get points. Some of the so called top players in the league also end up having a horrendous +/- when you see how many goals are scored against them. I completely disagree with your comment that everyone on this team will stick up for each other, there was a time last year when Stewart, Poole and Heyes were all out of the line-up with injuries and every team we played ran over us without any pushback. There’s a reason why Stewart was invited to an NHL camp, he’s a role player that has the respect of his team mates, it’s not because he’s potting 50 goals a season.
To have a successful team you need several ingredient players. Petes1987 is bang on, Dubois wins pucks and gives his team possession, he was going up against other teams top lines. Getting goals and assists isn’t his first priority in the role he was in. Show me a team of all goal scorers and I’ll show you a losing team. Poole FO% is between 60-80 % in pre reason and regular season so far. He wins almost every important draw in Kingstons end. Most of our other centres are at 40+ % in draws. That makes a big difference. Guys also like Heyes, Stewart, McGowan, are incredibly important to a team, they grind, do what they can in the minutes they have, they sacrifice their bodies and do the things soft players won’t for a team.
When I watch our games, so many goals against us come from soft players unwilling to battle, I would take a player like Uens over a 6’3 defencemen who is afraid to get his nails dirty. Uens battles and gives you what he has. A player like Outwater just doesn’t have that skill set, so as much as we may get excited about his points and his value as a goal scorer he’s also a huge liability when we don’t have the puck. Maybe we just see the game differently.
