Gary Nylund
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- Oct 10, 2013
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You're the one who's ignoring facts and blathering on emotionally calling him "incredible this, incredible that, amazing play" and talking about Nylander, Rantanen, Matthews and whoever else to deflect but this thread is about Marner. Blaming Matthews for his failures, you really think anyone's going to fall for that? The fact is that Marner had a chance to show what he could do in the playoffs without Matthews last spring and he fell flat on his face. 3 points in 7 games is a simple fact, that's two series on a row now where he's been ineffective from the start. You can't handle the truth, but that's a fact.Again as usual you ignore everything and blather on emotionally. That's why we don't have these talks anymore.
But there is one thing we haven't discussed. The 4 nations.
Imagine if Bennett's shot gets saved and we don't even go to OT or McDavid's shots gets saved and we lose on the next play. Marner ends the tournament with one or two points and the haters go crazy. You would have been the first to whine about points. Admit it. You won't. But because the goalie didn't stop two shots over two seconds, which has nothing to do with Marner, your opinion of Marner at least for that tournament was positive. Think about it. Marner plays the exact same but your opinion can be changed by two seconds of play by OTHER players. Two seconds. It's absurd. This is why anyone whining about points doesn't understand the game.
Adjusting for the incredible pace of the best against best and to a lesser extent the playoffs, Marner pretty well always plays like this (except the occasional game and the Florida series). The same incredible setups, the same incredible defence and the same amazing play away from the puck but for some reason Matthews' shooting percentages drops from 16% to 10% to 4% in critical games, just like it would have been in the 4 nations if it weren't for 2 seconds of play by other players.
You have two choices now. You can join the group of fools who blame Marner for Matthews' playoff failures or you can realize how dumb it is to use points as the ONLY measure of value. I suspect that you will just ignore all of this and hide in your shell.
You're living in a fantasy land.