Do you arbitrarily remove points for every player?
ask anyone who uses analytics properly. You break down and reconstruct the numbers and explain them. If you take away those 8 pts in three game it gives you a better view of how his season has been. When you break it down by either month or 10 game segments? His numbers look worse.
firs ten games of the season. 3 pts in 10 games 2 goals 1 assists.
Next ten games? 3 assts
next ten games? he was healthy scratch and then got his hat trick. He gets 5 goals and 2 assists over the next ten games with 3 goals in one game and 1 goal and assist in another, So in 8 games he got 2 pts.
There is no doubt the Hawks are trying to dump him and that is why they are trying pump his stats up. There are about 5 players, when you look at their stats you think they are having a good year but when breakdown and reconstruct their numbers the pump and dump is obvious