15-07-2017 09:21 via edmontonjournal.com

Shots fired! Ex-Oilers winger blasts analytics guys for undervaluing intimidation

“They don’t know anything,” Laraque says, but that’s under-selling contribution of analytics 
This in from former NHL Georges Laraque, talking to Bob Stauffer of Oilers Now, defending Edmonton Oilers forward Milan Lucic and blasting analytics bloggers who downplay the physical factor in hockey. Stauffer suggested to Laraque that analytics-based bloggers don’t like tough guys but one of the reasons the Oilers were so healthy this year was because the team had to
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