When it comes to advanced stats and hockey analytics, the name “Don Cherry” doesn’t spring to mind as a torch-bearer.
But give the old guy this: He’s trying.

Eyebrows were raised when Grapes tweeted the following last week about the Toronto Maple Leafs:

“Randy Carlyle upset after the game against Minnesota. He knows you're living in a fools paradise. When you think you're playing well and win and get outshot 37-14. Some day your goalies are not going to be hot and carry you and then you're in trouble. Once you get in that groove of losing it's going to pull out of. I know, it happened to me in Boston. Get that ship straightened out. You still won but don't think that you're playing well.”
In his own adorably literal and blunt fashion, Don Cherry dipped his toe into the fancy stats pool on puck possession and unsustainable success for the Toronto Maple Leafs, stunning the hockey smarts in the audience.

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