wflan

I have a lot of opinions about intent and injuries. I'd love if you could chime in.

My beef is that the NHL suspends to injury and that's a roll of the dice. You can do what Matt Cooke did to Tyson Barrie and completely sever tendons or just make a guy sore for a shift or two, with the same intent on collisions with near-idential optics. Teams can also game the system by manipulating what they disclose w/ injuries.

Any thoughts on if this is a problem? How substantial it is? It feels like the NHL operates in a world where 'attempted ____' isn't in the vocab; you only get in trouble if you succeed in your illegal activities.

Hey, not sure if you're still responding (and thanks for doing this)

Is there a method or metric that's popular for evaluating defensemen? Points are obviously only a part of their game and hits/other more traditional stats can be subjective are just a small slice. I know I have a hard time objectively comparing the 'stay at home' types without watching a lot of their play. Must be even more daunting across various levels of play with so many different guys out there.