Comments on: What We'd Tell The Leafs http://www.depthockeyanalytics.com/uncategorized/what-wed-tell-the-leafs/ Tue, 16 May 2017 18:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: IJay Palansky http://www.depthockeyanalytics.com/uncategorized/what-wed-tell-the-leafs/#comment-60763 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 20:15:27 +0000 http://www.depthockeyanalytics.com/?p=370#comment-60763 Thanks Paul. Good question. CF% actually accounts for both offense and defense -- it's like +/-, but for shot attempts. But it can be broken into its component parts of Corsi For (CF) and Corsi Against (CA). It actually turns out that Kadri's CA/60 is lower than Bozak's, by 68.2 to 70.4. But Kessel's and JVR's CA/60 last year were about 3 points lower with Bozak than Kadri, which indicates that as a line they're better off in terms of defense only if they use Bozak. Assuming those numbers accurately reflect what could be expected over the long term, it wouldn't be crazy for the Leafs to play Kadri on the first line unless and until they were ahead late in the game.

]]> By: Paul http://www.depthockeyanalytics.com/uncategorized/what-wed-tell-the-leafs/#comment-60739 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 19:31:01 +0000 http://www.depthockeyanalytics.com/?p=370#comment-60739 Hi Ijay,

I loved your Bozak piece in the Star today; and I like the above too. I think you establish that Bozak is the lesser offensive player of the two (vs Kadri); but is there a Corsi Against? Or stats on how other teams' CF% fares when they face Bozak vs Kadri? In other words, you make a compelling argument on the offensive side, but I didn't really get a sniff of how they stack up against eachother defensively - Bozak may (or may not) fare better in this area.

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