As a Modernist stream-of-consciousness style post, I would call this a success. As any sort of argument, this is verbal diarrhea. I'd just repeat a lot of what I said responding too in-depth. Long story short, your stats are wrong and you generally don't seem to have a grasp on the use and validity of the ones that aren't, or just disparage ones like actual scoring. As it was before, it doesn't seem about logic or debate, but rather a zealous desire to minimize Provorov -- beyond the realm of rational criticism; the rational I don't oppose, and I do think Ghost has been better -- so you do you, pal. Wear that title "The JTown of Provorov" with pride.
I'll add that microstats fall very much under the umbrella of analytics. It's odd to rag on stats and then feverishly search out microstats to back up an argument. "Basic stats" are in the eye of the beholder though; I think most people with working knowledge of them would call the mainstream ones "basic stats" because they describe basic, intuitive things. But Tom, Dick, and Harry probably aren't discussing entry/exit data and xGF% between sips of Bud Light at XFINITY Live!.
Here are those stats by the way:
Last year, you can see he was 1st in controlled entry % allowed on the team, 1st in controlled exit %s, and 2nd in controlled entry %s. Of course comparing players on one team to a different team has some inherent difficulties.....
And here's this year, tracked through 50 or so games. Entries are similar to last year; it's more Ghost surging. But he is in a tier to himself with this stuff. And you can see Provorov's blue line defense is up there with the best in the NHL.
I already made this point last time, but it does make an interesting case if possible to separate Ghost and Provorov's data for before and after the pairing. There is only one puck and we have two excellent entry/exit machines on quasi-PPs at 5v5, without the chance to get as many exits. It's why I was more curious about %s than per 60 stats. It's a lot different than when Hagg and MacDonald were beside each of them. And for the record, they have each benefitted from this new Ivan-Ghost pairing in pretty equal measure, adjusting for usage. They each were subpar statistically apart with those partners, even with quality entry/exit stats -- because that's just one area and you can do well in that and not do well overall. See, I told you I'd repeat myself.
I'm sure I'll get a logical pretzel response back as I wasted my time again. This is my last response here, so just make sure to put mustard on top. Pretzels need mustard. #TeamMustard
