Quinn Hughes is having a Hart caliber season

[Rowlet]

Youre attributing to me certain arguments when im just sharing widely-held observations of how it works - whether you agree or not.

I think you can make an argument MVP should be player of the year simply based on the original definition being voided by outdated/obsolete language. "Ajudged" when was the last time you used that in a sentence without it being the reciting of this? Seeing a relic of a word like this makes one wonder how many teams were in the league at the outset of this definition.

Determining the most important player to a team among 6 teams that are all/mostly in the Eastern time zone seems to be a lot less problematic than determining the "most valuable" player to 32 teams. Several teams are in the west an many voters dont even watch these games. So why even pretend that the level of scrutiny can be the same when it comes to adhering to the original definition.

Practically speaking, its been closer to Player of the Year for a long time. And its probably for the best.

But even in adhering to that old language, it's highly subjective.

Believe it or not, I actually don't think it would be particularly back breaking to be educated on the subject, especially if I were being paid to be knowledgable about hockey.

 

[dirtydanglez]

His production dipped but his overall play was better.

The Canucks top 6 had Ilya Mikheyev in it, and Pettersson was suffering from tendinitis, additionally, with the injury to Demko the team was forced to switch from a higher offence transition system that regularly left Demko out to dry, to one that had to collapse around Silovs and protect tons of high danger chances against and turtle leads harder, while relying on very few chances for.

better in what way

 

[John Mandalorian]

Believe it or not, I actually don't think it would be particularly back breaking to be educated on the subject, especially if I were being paid to be knowledgable about hockey.

Perhaps but there's not really a mechanism to hold anyone accountable. But again, interpretations are subjective so they can always use that as a default excuse even when they're simply negligent/lazy.

 

[Rowlet]

better in what way

Yes, metrics aren't everything, but Hughes controlled the game at an even better rate than he did in the regular season, at a rate above even McDavid in most cases.

Regular Season:

CF% 57.15%
CF Rel 9.53%
FF% 54.82%
FF Rel 6.11%
xG% 54.64%
xG Rel 4.14

Playoffs:

CF% 59%
CF Rel 16.9%
FF% 58.18%
FF Rel 16.15%
xG% 58.48%
xG Rel 12.65%

McDavid playoffs:

CF% 56.83%
CF Rel 12.22%
FF% 57.39%
FF Rel 12.41%
xG% 57.53
xG Rel 13.40%