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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I like Backlund but it is damn foolish to claim he's better than Monahan. There are no metrics that agree with this.
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Last year and this year in the playoffs 5 on 5:
Backlund (against MacKinnon, Seguin, starting more in the defensive zone): 48.08% corsi for, 46.98% expected goals for,
48.32% high danger corsi for
Monahan (against Compher, Dickinson, starting more in the offensive zone):
45.97% corsi for, 44.96% expected goals for,
40.99% high danger corsi for
How do people see one centre possessing the puck, driving the middle of the ice and transitioning and one who's either chasing around in his own zone or dumping the puck and think the second is better than the first?