Quinn Hughes is having a Hart caliber season

[MarkusNaslund19]

3-0 Jets and Hughes bails on a puck behind net to avoid getting hit .... Bing, bang pucks in the net 4-0 Jets.
league MVP? ......not a chance.

What an ignorant, cherry picked misinterpretation on so many levels.

Hurr durr, he quit cuz he dun currr. Dan he bad and no Hrat Torphy.

Good stuff. Nice to see the discourse level on the main boards is "put in air pods if you overheard this nonsense at a bus stop' levels.

 

[geebster]

Hughes has played 246 minutes against grit in 38 games. Makar 196 in 44. That's not a 45 seconds per game difference. More like 2 minutes per game. That is significant. Like 10% of Hughes total 5v5 icetime.

I said by percent. 8% of Hughes' grit ice time is 40 seconds per game. They don't play the same 5v5 minutes so the way you are calculating it isn't intelligible. If Hughes is playing more time 5 on 5 against elite competition than Makar, why does it matter that he also plays more minutes against bad competition? Being out there more isn't a bad thing. You cannot say he avoids elite competition when he plays them more per game... and then fault him for playing more minutes on top of that against other lines. By the way your claim was about elite competion yet you don't even address that point.

Also odd that you are arguing the raw numbers when your contention was the proportion (the % against low vs high competition). That's why I responded directly to your claim. That if Quinn Hughes played his minutes at the same proportion as Makar what is that time difference and how productive is he in that time. I also did that for his medium and elite when I looked to see if his production would wildly change (it didnt)

It's real simple, 0.08 x 246 x 60 / 38 ... is actually 31 seconds per game. So even less than I had. Your framing is that the appropriate way to compare their usage is to just say... hey why doesn't Hughes just delete their raw minutes difference on grit..and ignore that he has more 5 on 5 minutes overall so his proportions would be entirely different than Makars. Instead of deleting minutes just adjust the proportion.. if your entire argument is about proportion.

Just imagine if I pointed to a 6/7th defenseman and said hey they only get 2 mins a game against bad competition!! They must be getting much worse deployment than Hughes does... heck Hughes is so sheltered!!! No... if someone plays fewer minutes in the sample they will have smaller raw numbers.