After a poor start to the season from Mitch Marner and John Tavares at even strength, there was a fair amount of speculation that Hyman was the secret ingredient that is key to the line’s success, the underlying factor in what allowed the two offensive stars to dominate their competition.
To figure out how much Hyman impacts the Leafs, let’s isolate the biggest strengths in Hyman’s game and look at how the Maple Leafs performed on average with him in the lineup last season and without him in 2019-20. Based on the highly visible way the Hyman plays the game, you could be tricked into thinking that the area in which the Leafs miss him the most is in their forechecking, but as I’ve noted in recent pieces, the Leafs have leaned more heavily into forechecking this season than any other season under Babcock.
I don’t think it can be laid entirely at the feet of missing Hyman, but the Leafs have fallen from producing the second-most inner slot shots in the league per minute at 5-vs-5 last season, to the 28th-most so far this season. That is a catastrophic fall in effectiveness that Hyman’s return should at least help to remedy.
Steve_Dangle AndrewBerkshire MapleLeafs Nobody tell T.I. that a Hyman can come back and stronger than before...
AndrewBerkshire MapleLeafs Not a national story Leafsnet. Keep this Leaf propoganda shit on your local 590 feed. You don't cover the other 6 Canadian teams to this level on your national twitter feed so stop jamming Toronto down our throats.
Steve_Dangle AndrewBerkshire MapleLeafs Did Mike Babcock write this?
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