Modifié 28 nov. 2022 à 23 h 28
Quoting: Jah1722
I’m not homering. I’m asking you how one 23 year old is on one extreme vs the other and all you’ve given me is he’s played ~10 games in the top 4 so he’s an elite 23 year old and the other is a defensive 3C so he’s a bad 23 year old.
You are homering. I've given you stats which you just ignored to try and stand here for your guy but if you want to delve deeper, lets do that.
Liljegren is a 23 year old who has been called on to play top 4 minutes in both of the last 2 seasons, the current 10 game stretch only being the most recent. He has performed at 4.21% above average xG across the past 3 seasons(all numbers even strength) on a team that has been well above average as a whole during that time. He's also a RHD, the most valuable position on hockey.
Meanwhile Lundestrom has scored at 0.28 points per game as a forward on the ducks. The points he has scored was largely on a run where he was shooting 20%, 8% above his average and completely unsustainable when we look at league wide stats. When we look at overall play, he is sitting at 4.92 xG below average for the Ducks ... a team well below average as a whole. When we choose to look on the defensive side of things only, which he has been sold as by Ducks fans in here, he is 0.01 xGA better than average on the Ducks ... or basically exactly average for a well below average team. Maybe he will improve on his defensive game with time, this is at least reasonable to expect unlike his offense turning from night to day.
So when we look at it, Liljegren has been an effective young defenseman who has been performing above average on an above average team. Ludestrom has not been an effective forward, playing below average on a below average team. How's that for facts? Queue the goal posts.