Quoting: Logan_Ollivier
No he wasn't he was just luckier. Every underlying stat showed Nylander's "terrible defence" was entirely goaltending. Nylander gets the puck up ice and it stays there when he's on the ice. However last season he just got scored on a bunch but the sv% when he was on the ice was ridiculously low. Funny how only using stats that suit your bias always seem to add up eh?
Quoting: JaredOfLondon
oh wow, 0.2 p/60 better in a single year with no context outside that! he must be amazing!
Last year at EV garland had:
A better isolated xG+/- per 60 of 0.282 (WN had 0.153)
A better isolated CF+/- per 60 of 5.52 (WN had 1.85)
A much better isolated G+/- per 60 of 0.321 (WN had -0.215)
garland also had:
Team mate relative xGF +\- per 60 of 0.48 (WN had 0, meaning he was perfectly average compared to teammates)
Team mate relative CF +\- per 60 of 6.03 (WN had -0.05)
Team mate relative GF +\- per 60 of 0.91 (WN had -0.31)
So yes, when you add context, such as score and venue adjustments, teammates, and isolated impacts, garland was better 5v5 than Nylander in that he won his minutes by a bigger margin than Nylander did (in some cases nylander lost his minutes compared to his team mates). Even when you account for Nylander’s horrendous goaltending he got, garland still had better corsi and xG numbers.
And yes,
@JaredofLondon, he also scored points more often as well. Thanks for bringing that up.