"If you take a player like Seider and you deploy him in an extremely defensive way, and maybe you don't put the emphasis on his offensive play, he's not gonna score as many goals or score as many assists. You're not making him worse, but you're gonna be able to get him for cheaper because when agents typically negotiate, they look at points, and it's not necessarily the best comparable or the one that makes the most sense, especially for defenseman, but that's how a lot of negotiations go, and it's sort of a way to artificially reduce the player's open market value." - Stockton
