Kucherov accounts for more of his teams offense and has a wider point gap.You’re making it sound like the only reason Mack might win is because of his nationality and nothing else, which is far from the truth. Regardless of what you tell yourself, its dead close. Posted this somewhere else but just a few numbers to consider:
Tampa’s top 5 scorers:
144, 90, 81, 76, 75
Colorado’s top 5 scorers:
140, 104, 90, 56, 53
On ice goal differential:
Mack 97
Kuch 71
On-ice expected goals
Mack: 64.8 (without mack 41.8)
Kuch: 61.8 (without kuch 42.4%)
5 on 5 scoring:
Mack: 78
Kuch: 67
Adding to this, Mackinnon has actually been a pretty solid 2-way player this year and pretty much every model/metric supports this. He’s been dominating the puck like non-other this season
Kucherovs definitely a much better player on the PP which is also extremely important, but more points = better year is just a lazy argument, especially when the point gap is just 4 points.
There’s an argument for both players, and not just because one’s russian and one’s canadian. Heck the past 15 years the hart has been awarded to a Russian 5 times and to a Canadian 7 times. It’s really not as big of a factor as you’re making it sound like, if any.
+/-is a team stat favors better defensive teams. Lightning defense is way worse than Colorado . Tbl has second worse goaltending in league only worse than Ottawa unless it changed last night.
Kucherov has lower plus minus because he is more effective on powerplay. You don't get a plus when u score on power play.
Kucherov is a better shooter but isn't selfish. He makes the play that has the best chance at scoring. He loves to set up his teammates and is better at it than Mack.
Player a more points
Player a better points per game
Player a better shooting percentage
Player a counts for higher percentage of his teams offensive production.
Player a has more ppg against top 10 teams
Player a has more assist
Player b has more goals on 100 more shots and a lower percentage to score on his shots.
Player b is better on defense
Player b is not good at face-offs
Player A is in a historical category with Gretzky an lemieux with
100 assist
Player A is better
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