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Myers makes a lot of "great plays" in the defensive zone with his long reach, I've seen him steal the puck off offensive players in our defensive zone. He also is one of the Jet's smoothest skaters, and can lead a rush from his own end--"just like Buff"
I have not checked lately, but a poster on here a couple of days ago said Myers leads the defenseman in plus/minus ( + -) stats. Does that not say something ???
Add to the fact he's a tremendous quarterback on the power play, and his shot hits the net about 90 % of the time. ( unlike Troubas) His shot is very accurate and he also sets up a lot of players from the point. He should "always" play the power play.
Every defenseman makes the odd mistake in the defensive zone -- including Myers, but he now has 23 points in 45 games, and is our highest scoring defenseman. Without Myers, we would have "for sure" lost a couple more games, without his scoring.
Even if a D-man makes the odd mistake in the D zone, Myers more than makes up for it, with his tremendous offensive talent. You have to be blind not to see that !!! Myers is one of the big reasons the Jet's are winning, and in first place. We "need" him, and his good team attitude !!!
Myer's is on pace for 50 points this year !!!
Myers can lead the rush, but he's often trailing behind his teammates with the puck, where an outlet would be superior. His zone exits lead to less offensive opportunities than they should due to his decision making. It's the difference between a breakout that looks good and gets the team temporarily out of trouble versus a breakout that effectively transitions offense.
+/- says one thing and one thing only to me, what his +/- is:
Behind the Numbers: Why Plus/Minus is the worst statistic in hockey and should be abolished
It's a stat that you could just ignore, and be better for it. It doesn't even show outscoring well, let alone sustainable outscoring.
Myers is on pace for *42* points, but I'd take the under on him reaching that point total than the over.
1) It's the second highest point pace of his career, with the only one higher being his rookie season 10 years ago.
2) He's on pace for 82 games, another thing he hasn't done for 10 years.
3) Myers has 3 goals on PP to Byfuglien's 1 and Trouba's 0, despite all 3 between 1 and 2 expected goals given their unblocked PP shot production and quality.
There's a few other factors, once you look at the underlying statistics, but the truth is that Myers' point total for this season is trending at 42, but I would be more surprised if he's above that than I would be if he's below that.
