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Email a copy of 'Flyers Waive Boyd Gordon' to a friend
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twpguy
Useless signing. I’d rather see a young kid in that AHL spot
sqpnt
It was a low-cost, high-reward potential type of signing.
It didn’t work out and won’t cost the team much… nothing wrong with trying it out as long as you are willing to admit when the ship has sailed and it didn’t work out.
mhaas12
What was the high reward? Gordon has been replacement-level or worse for almost his entire career. He hasn’t cracked 23 points in the last decade, has posted comical, sub-replacement-level CFRel% numbers in his career, and we know now that faceoff wins have limited predicted value for a team’s performance (because a faceoff’s influence on scoring likelihood steadily declines after it occurs, reaching 0 after about 15 seconds).
I don’t really care about the signing if he’s just going to sit in the press box, because I’d rather have him riding the pine than some prospect that would benefit from skating regularly in the AHL, but the move still didn’t make any sense beyond the thought that he could take defensive zone draws. And any assumed benefit behind that strategy falls apart under rudimentary analysis.