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Over the past couple of decades, weve heard repeatedly
that the days of the hockey goon were numbered. First it
was the dreaded instigator penalty that was going to make
them extinct. Then it was the new rules coming out of the
lockout, the end of clutching and grabbing and the
premium on skill and players who could skate. And yet for
all the talk that there was no room left in the game for
one dimensional players whose only asset was their
ability to fight, there were still lots of one
dimensional players in the game whose only asset was
their ability to fight. Please step forward John Scott
and George Parros, to name just two obvious examples. Now
it seems that weve reached another turning point in the
debate about the role of enforcers. And this one is
framed differently. Its not an ethical question about
whether fighting belongs in the game. Its not related to
concussions and the obvious safety issues that come with
players beating each other in the head with their fists.
Its not a debate about whether - in todays NHL - you need
enforcers the way you once did. Its now a question of
whether teams can afford to carry players who have
limited ability to possess the puck, cant keep up with
the game and have no offensive or defensive upside that
would give them any sort of advantage. In other words, do
whatever benefits exist from having fighters on the
roster overcome the liability of dressing players who
would not be playing in the NHL if they couldnt fight?
And heres where the analytics side of the game makes
things interesting. Advocates of the role of fighting in
hockey have always relied on an argument built on
strategic intangibles, the notion that skilled players
feel protected when enforcers are in the lineup, that
somehow everyone plays an inch taller just knowing that
kind of guy is sitting on the end of the bench, even if
he only plays a few minutes a night. Whether or not any
of that was actually true became a matter of hockey
ideology, depending on which camp you fell into. But
there was no reliable way to actually measure or test
that theory. Presumably, through the introduction of
analytics into the game, now there is. And the fact that
teams such as the Maple Leafs and Philadelphia Flyers
(huh?) will be begin the season without enforcers,
suggests that what teams are learning is that enforcers
dont help teams win games and are in fact liabilities.
That when the other team can roll four lines of players
with hockey skills and your team cant, thats probably not
a good thing. And that in todays NHL where teams tend to
be clustered so closely in the standings in the battle
for playoff spots, teams simply cant afford to give away
games just to a€“ quote a€“ send a message. Of
course, like many things where analytics are concerned,
we shouldnt have needed data to tell us this. The fact
that NHL teams put enforcers in the press box at playoff
time and that the teams which wind up competing for the
Stanley Cup each year are those that can roll four lines
were dead giveaways. But if it took hockey embracing
analytics to arrive at what should have been obvious all
along, then so be it. It turns out hockey enforcers - who
are always game for a fight against the oppositions
enforcer - may be no match for the nerds.
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