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feel like i'm being trolled - no way anyone is actually this clueless - but i'm gonna bite anyway :The eye tests clearly says otherwise. I've yet to see numbers to are able to correctly isolate the true impact of 1 player in hockey. I'm not against stats and all, but it's still not good enough imo.
From my personal experience the team a players plays on as a huge impact on how well the player will produce. I think there's a lot of that happening here.
These fancy graph are more indicative of the team the player plays on then the pure impact of 1 player.
Suzuki is a good 200ft player on a piss pour team defensively. It's not just reputation, try a watch a game ffs
the whole issue with the eye test is that it's biased and stats can be used to back up the actual performance that you are watching. which I don't know if you're really watching him at all because he's consistently been a piss poor offensive player with an inability to drive play from the perimeter into dangerous areas. which just confirms your own cognitive biases from "the eye test".
no one is saying that environment isn't important to a players individual success but this is also why these stats use some really fun math to "isolate" a player's individual impact regardless of who they play with. he's not a good 200ft player (since MSL took over) and all of the information i provided above shows that. he's mediocre at best and actually bad in some regards if we're being frank.
have a great day.