tiburon12
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In general, if you compare the Sharks to winning teams teams in the past, the gap in goal shares with their top players on the ice has been larger than the gap in goal shares with their depth players on the ice. In other words, our depth guys have played more comparably to the depth players on successful teams than our top players have played comparably to the top players on other teams.
The team’s 5V5 GF% with Thornton on the ice, in the playoffs, over the past ~12 years is about the same as it is with Thornton on the bench. IIRC, it might actually be lower. Those numbers may be inaccurately unflattering to some degree, but they still tell a big part of the story.
At 5-on-5, the Sharks held even with the Penguins with Thornton on the bench; it was on the ice where he got crushed.
what is the breakdown of Thornton on the ice pre and post Hertl injury?