FWIW they only played 6 games without him last season vs 76 with him. Numbers were 95% without ans 80% with but that's probably more meaningless to compare 76 games to 6.
The year with the Jets he played each game so we can't compare there, and the season before he only played 20 games, split with two teams.
We can still look at his overall career effectiveness on the PK, though. Also, we can compare his own numbers to his teammates. Not every PKer is created equal and therefore the team's overall numbers don't reflect the individual player's contributions.
Just because a team's ERA is 3.5 doesn't mean every pitchers is, you know? Some are higher and some are lower.
I don't know if there are advanced stats just yet to account for a lot of other factors that go into such an evaluation, though. Like, did a defenseman play on the PK with Bergeron and Marchand most of the time? Did they face the opponent's #1 unit or #2 PP unit more or less? So many things we can't tell that it feels like you sort of have no clue but to go back to the eye test at some point.
What I do think is most revealing about Forbort is that so much of the argument for him being effective depends on his PK ability. Not a lot of arguments for his 5-on-5 play anymore.
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