If we go by numbers and look at offensive production, you cannot possibly compare two defensemen head-to-head without accounting for their ice time and PP time, which is even more important for Ds than forwards.
So you're basically doing the exact opposite. You're looking at their ice time and their point totals and instead of accounting for that and looking at their scoring rates per/60 5on5 and on PP, you're just jumping to exactly the wrong conclusions.
What are you even talking about? Balinskis played 3:36 on PP on average, Jaks 4:10 because Litvinov fed him all PP time they could (it was actually over 5 minutes per game in the PO). If anything, it once again shows Balinskis has an edge here as well. So I'm really at a loss what are you trying to tell here.
Baliskis scored more, at a better rate, for a better team. So what is this "opposite" that I'm doing? I simply took the role for the teams they played as the focal point of an argument and not the scoring rates, which you would have evidently preferred, for whatever reason. It still leads to the same conclusion, not the opposite one.
I would wager you only wrote this nonsensical stuff in hopes the actual data isn't available/hard to find.
I'm not even going to go into how ridiculous it is, that we are talking defensemen and just like last year, scoring is somehow the first thing you attempt to grab. At this point, totals don't play into your favor so you are trying this cheap "scoring rates" trick which is even more ridiculous even if it did work, which it doesn't.
What's next? Percentage share on the goals the team scored? You can try that. This one might even work.
