LeafingTheWay
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Sens fan here in peace. Something to consider here. Last year he had a PDO of 104. That is a lot of luck on his side. This year he has a pdo of 95.3. Luck is not on his side(yet).
We had the same issue with duchene last year. He had a slump to start but he was actually playing very well. You wouldn't know that by the stat watchers who are the worlds biggest keyboard warriors. His PDO was awful in first 20 games as a sen. Since his pdo normalized he has been beasting hovering at a hair above PPG.
The point is, there is zero reason to panic on this guy. Nylander is a very good possession player and he will undoubtedly pile up points again sometime in the near. He is way to skilled and getting way to unlucky so far for this streak to be normal for him.
Relax boys, he is gonna be just fine. Maybe a hair over paid, but it really is more a to-may-to vs to-mat-to kind of perception there.
Thank you for bringing common sense into this board. As you can see, majority of Leaf fans are impatient and overreact for everything.
I have been preaching about PDO and on-ice sh% for the past 4 years. I have the same arguments every year explaining PDO and related stats, and it always, always works out in the end.