I’ve been looking into the stats, and I was surprised to find that Jordan staal had a 55% Corsi while having the 13th highest d-zone start percentage of all forwards. The forwards with similar deployment around the league all had sub 50, and most of them were sub 40%. Carolina is a Corsi friendly team, but it’s impressive nonetheless. Eriksson-Ek also had 55% Corsi with 33rd highest defensive start percentage, which may be even more impressive given the state of the Wild. I’m not sure what criteria was used for the Barkov win, as he was 77th in dzone start%. His Corsi and Fenwick are very high, but his other defensive stats like takeaways, blocks, hits, are good but not the best in the league. Florida’s takeaway stats at home/60 were 133% higher than their away takeaways/60 as of 2022. The next highway discrepancy was 65%. JEE on the Wild had 60 more hits than Barkov and the same ratio of takeaways/giveaways on a WAY worse team. I’ve watched Barkov a lot, he is definitely good defensively, but the eye test is not dominant enough to justify the voting discrepancy over his peers imo.