To close out, I'm not huge at looking at a single game xGs and claiming good/bad. I think you very much need to pair watching the game with it. Larger sample sizes, stats work well. But I think TK had a decent game with some strong stats. He was more of a passenger than a driver, but didn't hurt.

Per NST, Brink had the best xG% at 75%. Konecny was 5th at 60%, both great.

But as a ±:
Brink: 0.56 - 0.18 (xGF - xGA) for a +0.38
TK: 1.3 - 0.84 for a +0.46

So as a % Brink was better, but the raw difference TK was. Per EH, TK was third in xG±, behind I believe Z and Drysdale.

The more xG based models thought that he was good as well. ~57% xGF% by most models (EH, HockeyStats, etc), which is above average. Again, good marks against the Avs top line. If you look by raw xG±, and not just %, he was third best on the team. It's actually a reason why I don't like % as much.

He was tasked largely against the MacKinnon/Makar combo and actually won out most minutes by xG%. He took a goal against but had an assist, so more box-score metrics like Game Score liked it. The majority of the Flyers went supersonic so he was like 11th via that stat even with a high score.

I just wrote up a whole monster thread going through all the data and Bluesky discarded it 🙃. I will recreate but I wanted you to know this.

fuck it move Barkey to C and we ball

It was written in the stars.

Make that 65-31

They would but the puck went through the net, crowd, and building and is now hurtling through space.

It’s weird they have no way else to breakout tonight outside of the flip and fight for a 50/50

When puberty hits, he’s going to be a monster.