Quoting: rangersandislesfan
Quoting: gojetsgo
His 20 primary assists (of 39 assists) is tied for the 6th best total in the league. He had a higher percentage of primary assists than Karlsson, Shattenkirk and Keith. So OBJECTIVELY YOU ARE WRONG. Please stop making up facts as it does a disservice to both the sport and hockey fans everywhere.
and he wastes most of his time hitting i think. We just disagree.
So, if he 'wastes most of his time hitting,' what could he be doing instead that would help the team more? Putting up points? Oh, wait...
For the record, Byfuglien was
10th in hits in the NHL among defenders with at least 25 GP, with
183 hits. This is actually lower than his previous year's total of
222, and the first time that he's had less than 200 hits in a full season since '11 - '12. Over an 80 GP span, that's
2.29 hits per game. This is
~ 1.21 standard deviations above the mean number hits per game,
1.35. For reference, the 4 defenders that earned more primary points than Byfuglien:
- Brent Burns: 0.84 hits per game;
~ 0.66 SD below mean
- Victor Hedman: 1.18 hits per game;
~ 0.22 SD below mean
- Erik Karlsson: 0.87 hits per game;
~ 0.62 SD below mean
- Kevin Shattenkirk: 1.1 hits per game;
~ 0.32 SD below mean
and the 5 below him:
- John Klingberg: 0.53 hits per game;
~ 1.07 SD below mean
- Torey Krug: 0.73 hits per game;
~ 0.80 SD below mean
- Roman Josi: 0.75 hits per game;
~ 0.78 SD below mean
- Alex Pietrangelo: 0.48 hits per game:
~ 1.13 SD below mean
- Dougie Hamilton: 0.84 hits per game:
~ 0.66 SD below mean
Byfuglien is indeed an outlier, in terms of throwing hits in comparison to his ability to produce points. But his hit-throwing doesn't seem to affect his ability to produce points.