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driveway · 04-04-2016, 08:56 PM

I'm gonna have to start watching some more Florida games. Barkov keeps getting all this praise for his '200 foot game,' people on HF rank him with Kopitar and Bergeron for his defensive abilities, but I went digging through the stats and I can't find anywhere he ranks significantly above Monahan. CF% is basically identical, CF%Rel almost the same (Monahan is better), Shots Against 60 is again almost identical. Really, the only major difference I found is Zone Starts, and Zone Starts is a bunk stat. It's worse than +/- IMO.

I'm gonna have to see what the eye-test tells me about how this kid plays.

04-04-2016, 08:56 PM	#35
driveway A Fiddler Crab Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Chicago Exp:	I'm gonna have to start watching some more Florida games. Barkov keeps getting all this praise for his '200 foot game,' people on HF rank him with Kopitar and Bergeron for his defensive abilities, but I went digging through the stats and I can't find anywhere he ranks significantly above Monahan. CF% is basically identical, CF%Rel almost the same (Monahan is better), Shots Against 60 is again almost identical. Really, the only major difference I found is Zone Starts, and Zone Starts is a bunk stat. It's worse than +/- IMO. I'm gonna have to see what the eye-test tells me about how this kid plays.