Foppa2118
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I don’t hate what the writer is saying here on the Hughes/Makar conversation. Though, I do think he’s missing a couple points.
He’s basically saying, to use a football analogy, that Hughes gets you more consistent yardage every play. I would entertain that Makar gives you more one-play touchdowns.
And one other note on the corsi numbers. I would guess that Girard factors into this a bit. Graves spent time with Girard when Makar was down which would inflate his away from Makar corsi numbers. Girard in my mind, is better than all Van defenceman except for Hughes.
As for the GM of the year. I agree. Sakic easily. You look at pretty much all the moves he made working out nearly perfectly and it’s a slam dunk.
They seemed to be making more of a corsi argument and a with/without argument, as well as an offensive zone starts argument. None of which is definitive enough, accurate enough, or meaningful enough IMO over the course of a 60 game sample size to make up for all the offensive numbers in Makar's favor.
I also think Makar provides more one play touchdown type plays, but he provides just as much consistent yardage type plays as Hughes too. Literally almost every shift Makar does something that helps the team a lot. Whether it's skating the puck out of the zone in situations every other D man would have to play safe, or a perfect short pass to a teammate in stride, or a long stretch pass for a scoring chance, or the plethora of things he does with the puck both up high and down low in the zone to generate scoring chances and momentum.
Makar does so much to help the Avalanche we almost take it for granted sometimes, because he does it every shift, every game.