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Yesterday the “Free Agent Frenzy” began in the NHL, the time when clubs can get free players. Thus turned the carousel of porters. Calgary provided Jacob Markström (formerly Vancouver) with a 6-year contract worth $ 36 million, the Canucks in turn bringing in Braden Holtby from Washington and the Capitals, in turn, Rangers legend Henrik Lundvist.
And also a Swiss could put his signature on a contract: Luca Sbisa. The Zug defender will begin his thirteenth NHL season earlier in the year after signing up for another year in Winnipeg for a salary of $ 800,000. Last season, Sbisa played 44 games for the Jets and reserved 10 scoring points.
Luca Sbisa! To Winnipeg! For what!”
Now, general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff’s decision to stick with the 30-year-old is not just applause. Sbisa enjoys a bad, even miserable, reputation, especially among those who have devoted themselves with great zeal and at least a modicum of fanaticism to processing ice hockey with numbers, statistics and graphs. For them, the Swiss, who already has 570 NHL games on the account, is a red rag.
Well-known hockey mathematician and statistics illustrator Micah Blake McCurdy became heated after news of Sbisa’s new contract broke. He ventured on Twitter. Luca Sbisa! To Winnipeg! For what! He drooled and underlined his criticism with graphics supposedly showing Sbisa’s weaknesses.
“Luca gives us different options,” says his boss Cheveldayoff. «He came to us in a difficult situation and helped us. He’s a good veteran and a very good professional. “
If you don’t just trust the numbers, it looks like you have a different image of Sbisa. Perhaps its qualities cannot be shown in graphs and numbers.
