Delusional. Please explain...
What does the below first two quotes have to do with me thinking it is borderline delusional to twist what happened in a few games into a career issue, when there's literally no support for such an assertion?
... why he is never on the ice when protecting the lead late in games and I do not mean the last two minutes it is much longer then that.
Babcock has a short list of people he trusts in the last few minutes. Like most of our forwards, including Marner up until the end of this year, Nylander is not on it. And the results of how Babcock handles the last few minutes with leads have been bad, so it's not like the decision looks terrific.
And that Nylander is not on the ice in much longer than the last two minutes in the third is demonstrably false.
Then also please explain the amount of times Babcock has removed him from playing with Mathews and put him elsewhere perfering Brown there?
Because the line, like all other lines, sometimes goes stale. And Babcock obviously does not "perfer" Brown there, considering he plays Nylander there as much as he can. Which has been quite obviously the better option, as the line has dropped off considerably without Nylander there.
Then while you are at it look at post game threads and see just how many times people have said the same thing I have been saying every time we play a physical team. It is very consistent and even the Marlie coached benched him in the playoffs for the same reason as the team we were playing were very physical. It has been since his career had started and you calling me delusional is priceless when people seem to conveniently forgot that this was not a 7 game series issue but his NHL career to date issue. Happens in every physical game more so on the road as we lack last change.
Nylander has produced better on the road than at home. If you look at his spread of production and underlying numbers, the trend you speak of is not there.
So you are making stuff up. You claim things that demonstrably false. When I argue against how you attribute how he played against Boston to the rest of his career, you answer by just throwing random crap at Nylander. And you want to claim that you are being reasonable on this topic? You're acting like Pookie when he talks about Kadri.
You can argue that he lapsed but the rest of your statement....? Perhaps disappear is the wrong word. He was quite visibly **** against Boston.
I don't think anyone disputes that.
Actually nhl player development is charted almost always as a gamma curve in the first few years. Not sure the point here.
Outside the quantitative descriptions, there are also some qualitative attributes of champions. Champions perform when they need to. Call it heart, compete, grit...etc.
Champions like Crosby? Last time he met Boston and was matched up like Nylander was, he had 0 points in 4 games and was absolutely dominated as the Penguins got swept.
It's one series.