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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
But it was? Did you not read the graph I presented? Neal improved both Gaudreau and especially Tkachuk defensively in their limited minutes together with marginal negative impact on their offense.
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Gaudreau "improving defensively," but his offense taking a much much bigger hit isn't Neal making his teammate better, it's the opposite. Gaudreau had better shots-for:shots-against ratio without Neal, that's not at all a positive impact. It's why away from Neal he's much closer to that grey line.
And again, we're looking at very limited numbers. It's too small of sample size when you're comparing players who played 8% of their 5v5 time with Neal and trying to suggest much of anything.
EDIT: I think you misread your chart if you are calling it marginal negative impact on Gaudreau's offense. He went from 60 score-adjusted shots/60 to 53. Inversely, he went from a score-adjusted shots against/60 of 50 to 46.