But that right there is important. Having Wilson sit in the penalty box for 5 minutes is just as beneficial
The deterrence argument is basically: ‘Deterrence is not a thing!!’ And no one saying anything about deterrence. And then another guy saying ‘deterrence isn’t real!!’
For what it's worth, this is entirely based on Dom Lunchchicken's GSVA model. It's like determining who in baseball had the best off-season by calculating the projected WAR for the players they added and lost. I'm not making a case for or against it, just pointing out that's what it is. IIRC his model predicts Goodrow to have negative value as soon as 22-23 and doesn't like anyone else we brought in, either. His model is interesting but I don't like it when used alone.
I do, too. It had to. But as I said in another thread, the Wilson thing could have never happened, or someone could have literally responded by killing Tom Wilson on the ice, and we'd still be in the same situation of looking to add tougher players (in terms of mentality and physicality) after being bullied and absolutely shut down by teams like the Islanders, Caps, and Bruins at various points down the stretch, and really throughout the year. The discussion of needing to make substantial roster adjustments began long before the Wilson incident (which was with, what, four or five games left when we were already basically done?) and likely would have occurred in some manner regardless of our owner getting pissed off and turning over the FO.
Is that really such an outrageous claim? A physical energy player on a long term contract that has never shown much in the way of production and is going to rapidly be on the wrong side of 30? Lord help us if he checks out at any point because he got paid.
I absolutely don't understand how he has Nemeth as a negative GSVA player. He is consistently in the top 25th percentile of defensive metrics. I simply don't get it.
No, it's not outrageous at all. My thing is just, the model factors in the negative values it sees from guys like Tinordi. It affixes him a value of -1.64 wins added over his contract. Tinordi is a role player who could very easily not even play more than a handful of games. McKegg is worth -.5 wins; he's a 14th forward who may not even make the team. Dryden Hunt gets +.48 wins added and who knows how much he'll play in two season? It's an objective model that, IMO, is no given proper context by the author. Even Reaves, who is the second-largest negative drag on the team, is probably not going to be a guy who plays everyday this year or next.
Yeah, I mean, he essentially has him as being no different than Brendan Smith. I like Smith but I think Nemeth, from what I recall of him (and from what I see in his analytics), is clearly a superior player. So even within the model itself, which I do generally like, there are some head-scratchers.
his model also hates Chytil and always has lol
To Dolan, it’s just business asset protection. To us it’s a hockey team. JD and JG were correct stockpiling talent and advancing them. They were however caught out by not having the protection or support these assets needed. They went in uninsured. We had 80 mil asset bounced off the ice and no strategy either as a preventative or mitigation. I’d fire the lot of them as well.
