A common complaint I hear about professional hockey is how teams are incentivized to “simplify” their players’ games and to “coach to the lowest common denominator.”
It doesn’t have to be that way.
Consider Toronto’s fourth line of Kyle Clifford-Pierre Engvall-Jason Spezza:
The 37-year-old Spezza has 940 career regular-season points and was a perennial all…
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