And he has better xGoal rates without each of them too, so all that says is that the pairings aren’t being utilized optimally.
Also plays with Kaprizov, Eriksson Ek, Boldy for more than half of his time on ice.
Plays with 3rd/4th liners and against top players on the other team, its no wonder why he gets dominated every shift. Other teams focus on him, hard to do anything with shit linemates.
No, Faber has a worse xGoals rate without Brodin.
That's about 34.5% more ice time with legit players than Bedard has.
It’s really just one goalie being worse, and we have direct quotes from Gus talking about his thoughts on the difference between years, his focus (had a baby) and team structure (the depth D and injuries) being the quoted challenges. Faber is still rocking a sub 1.0 PDO so I don’t even know why on ice save percentage being solid would even be some sort of mark against him.
It's not. I don't assign credit to guys based on how goalies play behind them.
Yes, but the other 65% of the time we see him with as bad or worse players.
I watched all but 3 1/3 Wild games this season, I know exactly who contributed to each goal against and have no qualms about posting it in our GDTs. Middleton was brought down heavily from playing with Mermis, who is not an NHL player at all, they had terrible chemistry, but he has still looked awful any time he is not with a top tier line mate. All my post was intending to do is point out that Brock Faber plays most of his minutes with a guy who has the same kind of track record as Bedard’s line mates.
And in those minutes when he has not been with a top tier dman like Brodin, Faber has struggled.
Your routine has been the same ever since I have been on HB you knock and critique Canadian players and champion American players. Hard to take you seriously when you have a complete bias and agenda. I f Bedard was American and Faber Canadian you would be slamming Faber and pumping up Bedard , It's your history Eichel Gaudreau it's all the same , Hughes brothers as well.
I strongly disagree with that statement, theres been no point in this entire season where I would say Faber has struggled. He’s been as consistent in his own play as any defenseman I have seen in this league. He’s had stretches of bad results, like any player will in this luck based sport, but at no point has he personally struggled or looked poor at all.
Faber doesn't play harder minutes. Also the gap in minutes is just Faber power play time.
Again, this is all situational and depends on how you interpret harder, Brodin (with JEE) gets McDavid coverage because he defends speed so well, but Brock is out against the top shooting threats. Brodin is literally a top 3 defensive D men in the league and has been for a decade, when the rookie is getting the same kind of deployment and put out there to start OT in front of him, it says a lot.
Only one D man in OT, and he got the same deployment when Spurgeon was healthy, with two different coaches so…
His ice time and deployment went down to about 22 minutes until brodin got hurt.
22 minutes being top ice time still, while still being the guy out there in the final minute. I am sure the goal for next season would be to have him right around that number, with a healthy Spurgeon, who is also a hell of a player and the captain, also being worthy of time.
Not to mention, journalists typically know f all about hockey anyway. Not sure why they vote on awards, should be done by pro scouts or players.
He plays the most of any forward on the team and is obviously always going to be in every empty net situation which the Blackhawks are normally going to be in more often than most teams because they are garbage.
Those are 5v5 per 60 numbers, which don't include empty net situations. So both of your points are irrelevant.
Centers are expected to play both sides of the ice. Defensive play is important for all positions. The idea is to defend as a team.
