Willy... Looks Bad...

[Notsince67]

Chereypicked stats, as usual.

There is a gap today, but it's as much due to Nylander not playing/playing with Kadri as it has to do with Marner playing out of his mind.

As much as people rag on them, Bozak and JVR were good/very good offensive players. Marner playing in a heavily sheltered role with them was a great situation. Your context argument had very little traction because although Nylander had the better linemate, he also had far tougher comp/zone starts. Balances out.

Like hell it does. Quality of team mates far exceed quality of competition in affects to a players game. Even if taken at par, there was a noticeable gap in the differential.

 

[zeke]

Like hell it does. Quality of team mates far exceed quality of competition in affects to a players game. Even if taken at par, there was a noticeable gap in the differential.

then why did JVR and Bozak do just as well with Brown on their wing?

 

[zeke]

In general, any fan who chooses to live in a thread ripping on the kid who just missed half the season for not being up to speed yet, when we have the best team we've seen in our lifetimes, and the team has been even more dominating since that kid returned, is doing it all, all wrong.

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