) that ATL was thinking of trading Kovalchuk for the Twins.I could care less about the validity of the rumour, but it got me thinking because it brought up the whole debate again of whether the Sedins are first line players, and how it sounds stupid to trade 2 80pt players for 1.
Doesn't make sense, right? Except that many of Henrik and Daniel's points come on the same goal, which essentially means they are double dipping.
I combed through all 82 boxscores from last year and here is what I came up with:
Daniel was involved INDIVIDUALLY on 21 goals
Henrik was involved INDIVIDUALLY on 23 goals
together they COMBINED for points on 53 goals
So ultimately, the were involved in one way or another in 97 UNIQUE goals or "point opportunities" (as opposed to just adding their two point totals which would have been 150pts from last year).
Kovalchuk, for example, was involved in 87 unique goals last year.
So essentially, don't both twins together equal the offensive output of 1 elite player? Would it not make sense then, and not be the end of the world, to trade them both for one player who is in the 85pt plus category?
Also, wouldn't have 1 person with that output be better than needing two, because that would allow for two other people on that line to have scoring potential, rather than just one more?
I wasn't sure what to make of all this, so I fired it off to Mirtle, and a few other bloggers too to see if they could help, but what what do you all think?
