Also, even relative to his team Larkin has a below-average xgf%. His xgf is fine but xga putrid, pointing to a player who isn’t very good defensively. In terms of QOC and QOT the gap between the two in each player is rather similar which roughly approximates to similar difficulty ice time, larkin playing with slightly better players and against slightly better ones. Granted it’s flawed since it’s TOI QOC and QOT and in reality Larkin probably faced decently tougher competition but that doesn’t excuse the massive defensive gap. So to me Larkin is better offensively and Gourde defensively, and overall they are pretty close. Gourde did have better Es production this season but some of that can be attributed to his luck.