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The Athletic: Team of the Decade


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https://theathletic.com/1337887/2019/11/27/the-2010s-nhls-all-decade-team/

 

Line 1:

Crosby

Bergeron

Ovechkin

 

Line 2:

Toews

Malkin

Kane

 

Line 3:

McDavid

Stamkos

Kucherov

 

Line 4:

Kopitar

Marchand

Pavelski

 

1st pair: Keith-Karlsson

2nd pair: Hedman-Doughty

3rd pair: Chara-Letang

 

G:

Lundqvist

Holtby

 

Scratches:

Datsyuk

D. Sedin

Perry

Burns

Weber

Price

 

Discuss, I guess. And don't shoot the messenger.

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I wouldn't put a 60 pt player on a first line with Crosby and Ovechkin for a team of the decade. Insane. He'd be a good 4th line pick though.

 

He's not any old "60 point player" though is he. He's obscenely good at everything you need as a center.

Also, he's far north of ppg over the last 3 seasons.

 

But the actual reason he's there is the authors criteria.

 

If you’ve followed any of my previous work you’ll know that I try my best to limit any subjectivity which means I won’t just be picking players as I deem fit either (which means any questions about a player’s position will come with actual answers rather than my own arbitrary justification). Here’s the criteria I used to select the decade’s best team, with each factor normalized and weighted equally using standard deviations.

 

Total regular season Game Score (expected goals saved for goalies)

Average regular season Game Score (save percentage for goalies)

Peak three-year average regular season Game Score (expected goals saved for goalies)

Total playoff Game Score (expected goals saved for goalies)

Total trophy vote percentage (Hart, Art Ross, Ted Lindsay, Selke, Norris, Vezina, Rocket Richard, Conn Smythe, All Star)

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Then you can roll Bergeron, and I'll roll McDavid on that line.

 

I mean, sure. I'm not going to argue against that.

 

Production is obviously extremely important. I just think this guy is a unicorn in that he's so fucking elite at every little facet of the game. He's been so good that I think his inclusion is justified even if he has been significantly outproduced by others.

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