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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Great offensive players can also have good metrics - the offence make up for defence.
I don’t think Tkachuk is good enough defensively to cover for Johnny and Monahan. He can’t take Lindholm’s place that way. Especially off wing.
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In terms of overall play, yes. But even when you cut it down and look at his defensive metrics individually (which I did in the post you quoted), they're still tops on the team.
As the post below you said, you have to look no further than the Oilers to see McDavid and Draisaitl, who are incredible offensive players and their numbers look great overall, but when their defensive metrics are looked at individually, you can see how brutal they are defensively (literally worst on their team), whereas Tkachuk is amazing offensively AND defensively.
You are really, reeeally underrating Tkachuk here.
Just for reference, here's Tkachuk's, McDavid's and Draisaitl's impacts defensively (negatives in this case are good):
Tkachuk:
CA/60 Rel: -3.47 (best on Flames)
FA/60 Rel: -2.81 (3rd best on Flames)
SA/60 Rel: -1.65 (3rd best on Flames)
xGA/60 Rel: 0.04 (7th best on Flames)
SCA/60 Rel: -1.06 (6th best on Flames)
HDCA/60 Rel: -0.26 (4th best on Flames)
McDavid:
CA/60 Rel: 4.5 (worst on Oilers)
FA/60 Rel: 6.64 (worst on Oilers)
SA/60 Rel: 6.13 (worst on Oilers)
xGA/60 Rel: 0.64 (worst on Oilers)
SCA/60 Rel: 4.56 (worst on Oilers)
HDCA/60 Rel: 3.22 (worst on Oilers)
Draisaitl:
CA/60 Rel: 4.36 (2nd worst on Oilers)
FA/60 Rel: 4.97 (2nd worst on Oilers)
SA/60 Rel: 5.03 (2nd worst on Oilers)
xGA/60 Rel: 0.45 (2nd worst on Oilers)
SCA/60 Rel: 4.03 (2nd worst on Oilers)
HDCA/60 Rel: 2.49 (2nd worst on Oilers)
As you can see, McDavid and Draisaitl, who both have amazing offensive metrics, are literally the worst two Oilers forwards defensively by far. It's actually quite funny how bad they are defensively.
Tkachuk, on the other hand, has great offensive metrics as well as defensive metrics.