I'm not arguing if he deserves more ice time, I am arguing that in the eyes of the coach, he is not playing great defensively, and it shows with the comments/ice time.
Don't be ridiculous. Nylander's been playing great, Berube just needs to take his head out of his ass.
The difference in ice time had been basically PK and time played on defensive situation...
Marner/Matthews had been basically better player but Nylander line convert at higher rate this season.
His producion was 200% from expected on both side of the puck and marner by exemple is at 84%. And despite lack of conversion of his line, they've got the same amount of pts.. Its hard to believe than both will continu at the same rate of conversion all season.
Last season Marner averaged 1 minute 22 seconds more ice than Nylander. This season the gap in ice time has grown to 3 minutes 39 seconds. Don't waste your time trying to explain how this makes sense, it doesn't.
As far as production predictions, I really don't care. We're going to make the playoffs, how they perform at that time is my only concern. I feel like can count on Nylander to play at his usual high level, when it comes to Marner I can only hope for the same.