gonna miss Myers, after a disappointing Wild series, he's been very good against the Blues
So is Alex... big time.
What Tyler lacks in defensive acumen he makes up in his ability to inflict AND
withstand physical violence.
He can also skate the puck out of his own zone and consistently be able to flip/shoot the puck on the net from the point creating greasy rebound opportunities.
Yeah.. he's taken a lot of penalties but the Canucks are killing them off so I'm ok with his penalties so far.
How do you measure a player's ability to inflict and withstand physical violence?
You really can't... at least not directly.
You can obviously measure hits... but how can you quantify Tyler taking one for the team and absorbing a massive hit from a forechecking Tarasenko instead of Stecher or Tanev?
As far as I know, there is no hard stat to measure this kind of team toughness stat however...
I think there's a case to be made that Tanev's first injury free season EVER having correlation to Tyler's presence in the line up.
Tyler is a big boi that carries a long stick and is WAY better than NoGoodBranson.
And now with Tyler gone, St. Louis is gonna key in on Alex and Chris and we're gonna see a really dirty game today.
I hope Alex takes a double-dose of Ritalin today. He's gonna need it.