Getting hits means you’re often playing without the puck… not always the best stat. Judging by the list, it looks like most of these guys get a lot of PP points, and may actually struggle a bit 5on5.
dancinhmr
batherson was up there the year before as well iirc – i think he was plagued by injury this past season
ScienceNthingsNstuff
Not a big fan of hits as a measure of physicality. physicality. Kapanen had 99 hits. Notoriously physical forward Connor McDavid has 89. Hyman, who is actually pretty physical had 77. Bertuzzi had the same number per game as Matthews, Forsberg, Kampf, Crosby, PLD, and Matt Tkachuk. I doubt anyone thinks that group of players is equally physical.
Also not a great cutoff. Stutzle made it by less than McDavid missed. Benn, Stamkos and Pasta all in the same +/- 14 interval Stutzle is
SpinningDickTwist
Tavares entire 5 on 5 game is predicated on winning board battles especially down low. This is the reason he wins so many 1v2s and gets almost no credit at all from fans for his physicality in addition to putting himself in danger as our best net front presence.
Already people dismissing what he does in this thread.
This is the problem with spreadsheets, not properly contextualizing data will lead you to justify soft play far, far too much and I don’t know why it still hasn’t clicked for some of you how important a guy like Tavares is.
I get he’s harder to map on a spreadsheet than the 3 second burst of speed, snipe, celly, then back to disappearing all game you guys like so much but it has been half a decade now and some of you are digging in instead of realizing hockey is much, much more than that.
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Tavares on this list was a bit of a surprise.
Getting hits means you’re often playing without the puck… not always the best stat. Judging by the list, it looks like most of these guys get a lot of PP points, and may actually struggle a bit 5on5.
batherson was up there the year before as well iirc – i think he was plagued by injury this past season
Not a big fan of hits as a measure of physicality. physicality. Kapanen had 99 hits. Notoriously physical forward Connor McDavid has 89. Hyman, who is actually pretty physical had 77. Bertuzzi had the same number per game as Matthews, Forsberg, Kampf, Crosby, PLD, and Matt Tkachuk. I doubt anyone thinks that group of players is equally physical.
Also not a great cutoff. Stutzle made it by less than McDavid missed. Benn, Stamkos and Pasta all in the same +/- 14 interval Stutzle is
Tavares entire 5 on 5 game is predicated on winning board battles especially down low. This is the reason he wins so many 1v2s and gets almost no credit at all from fans for his physicality in addition to putting himself in danger as our best net front presence.
Already people dismissing what he does in this thread.
This is the problem with spreadsheets, not properly contextualizing data will lead you to justify soft play far, far too much and I don’t know why it still hasn’t clicked for some of you how important a guy like Tavares is.
I get he’s harder to map on a spreadsheet than the 3 second burst of speed, snipe, celly, then back to disappearing all game you guys like so much but it has been half a decade now and some of you are digging in instead of realizing hockey is much, much more than that.