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Originally Posted by Captain_Obvious
LOL
You do realize that last season the Islanders were about dead even with the Oilers in the standings?
One of those teams is constantly getting credit beyond their accomplishments for being handicapped a group of young talented players... guess which one it is?
Tavares put his team on his back and crawled them into the playoffs this season while the Oilers got gifted yet another top end prospect and still spiraled into further failure.
Oh the level of irony is dripping with that post.  |
Looks to me like he had a pretty identical season stats wise. About a point per game.
They were 4-5-1 until Visnovsky joined the team. Maybe they should give the trophy to him. Guy led the team in +/-. Tavares was -2.
What about Nabokov playing 40 games out of 48 and putting up at least average numbers? Last season they had Montoya play almost 30 games and he was awful.
Did Tavares help improve their PK?
Did he improve their scoring depth ?
I think the improvement in the supporting cast helped the Islanders make the playoffs more then anything Tavares did. It makes for a better story though if Tavares gets all the credit.