The Calgary Flames seem to be embracing this whole advanced stat outlier thing to a major degree. It’s almost like we’re being trolled by them – mostly with the announcement that Douglas Murray would join the team on a tryout basis. He had played eight games with the Cologne Sharks in Germany.
He’s 6-foot-3, 245 pounds, 35 years old, been out of the league for a year and slow as molasses. But man, can he hit! And boy would he play like Mark Giordano on Calgary’s blueline … not! In Murray’s last fullish season in 2011-12 his SAT relative percentage on the Sharks was a minus-6.9. In 2010-11 he was at mins-2.6. He’s never been a great advanced stat guy, never been a solid offensive player.
But he is enormous … and what an awesome penalty killer.
You can never have too many defensemen in this league, especially if you’re trying to make the playoffs. But weren’t there a few better options than Murray at least to take a look at?
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