Recognizing and understanding a traditional evaluation process is not hypotheticals.
To allege you know the reason why Firsov sat out a few games in 1969 and wasn't picked by Bobrov in 1972 is definitely hypotheticals.
"Hypothetical" doesn't equal "wrong", but reality is that Firsov (captain of CSKA, Tarasov's team) was dropped from the Soviet national together with Davydov (captain of Dinamo, Chernyshov's team) as soon as Bobrov and Puchkov became coaches of the Soviet national team instead of - Chernyshov and Tarasov. Also, note the date: after the Olympics, but before the 1972 World Championship and before the Summit Series was even agreed on.
Any worthwhile evaluation process includes adapting to the opposition strategies - but this is the evil moving the goalposts that you imagine.
No, the evil is that you switch from one argument to the other with little regard to logical consistency, throw everything at the wall just to see what sticks and show a rare inability to concede you might not have been entirely right all the times.
I also note that you didn't answer my invitation to point out the alleged contradictions on my part.
I'll return the favour and let you have the last word - the last two words, to be precise. Canadiens1958 vs Canadiens1958:
Soviets includig Bobrov did a great job of selecting their 1972 Summit Series roster.
1972 version of the Soviet team suffered from weak coaching and management as well.
