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The "Mr. T" Man of the Match 2018-19 Edition: Forward to the Cup

Game #70: CHI v TOR: Blackhawks 5-4. MotM: Rielly 5/0.  HM: Nylander 0/5. Others: Moore 1/0, Tavares 0/1, Sparks 2/0, Marner 0/1, Matthews 0/1.
Game #71: PHL v TOR: Leafs 7-6.  MotM: Nylander 2/4.  HM: Muzzin 2/2. Others: Marner 1/0, Brown 1/0.
Game #72: TOR v OTT: sens 6-2.  MotM: Nylander 4/1.  HM: Tavares 2/2.  Others: Rielly 1/3, Moore 1/3.
Game  #73: TOR v NSH: Preds 3-0.  MotM: Matthews 7/0 (unanimous).  HM: Zaitsev 0/6.  Others: Rielly 0/1.
Game #74: TOR v BUF: Leafs 4-2.  MotM: Matthews 7/1/ HM: Tavares 1/4.  Others: Johnsson 0/2, Zaitsev 0/1.
Game #75: NYR v TOR: Rangers 2-1.  MotM: Rielly 6/2. HM: Tavares 1/2.  Others: Matthews 0/3, Zaitsev 0/1, Hyman 2/0, Marner 0/1.
Game #76: FLA v TOR: Leafs 7-5.  MotM: Tavares 11/0 (unanimous). HM: Hyman 0/8.  Others: Rielly 0/2, Hainsey 0/1.
Game #77: TOR v PHI: Flyers 5-4 SO.* MotM: Matthews 4/1. HM: Brown 1/4.  Others: Ennis 2/1, Andersen 0/1.
Game #78: TOR v OTT: sens 4-2.  MotM: Matthews 5/1. HM: Marner 2/3.  Others: Rielly 2/2, Brown 0/2, Nylander 0/1.
Game #79: TOR v NYI: Leafs 2-1.  MotM: Andersen 7/6.  HM:  Tavares 7/3.  Others: Hainsey 0/3, Marner 0/1, Rosen 0/1.
Game #80: CAR v TOR: Canes 4-1.  MotM: Tavares 3/1.  HM: Matthews 1/3.  Others: None.
Game #81: TBL v TOR: Them 3-1 or 4-1 I can't remember which.  MotM: Matthews 4/1. HM: Marner 3/2. Others: Marleau 0/2.
Game #82: TOR v MTL:

MotM/Win MotM/Loss HonMen Accolades Times Voted Points
Forwards
12 Connor Brown 0 0 2 2 11 2
63 Tyler Ennis 1 0 1 0 8 4
33 Frederick Gauthier 1 0 0 0 7 3
11 Zach Hyman 1 1 6 8 16 11
18 Andreas Johnsson 1 1 6 8 15 8
43 Nazem Kadri 2 3 7 12 19 19
24 Kasperi Kapanen 3 3 4 10 24 19
32 Josh Leivo 0 0 0 0 0 0
26 Par Lindholm 0 0 1 1 3 1
12 Patrick Marleau 0 2 0 2 9 4
16 Mitch Marner 3 6 8 17 39 29
34 Auston Matthews 9 6 5 20 29 44
42 Trevor Moore 0 0 0 0 5 0
29 William Nylander 1 3 5 9 18 14
19 Nic Petan 0 0 0 0 0 0
91 John Tavares 8 2 11 21 37 39
 
Defensemen
55 Andreas Borgman 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 Travis Dermott 1 0 1 2 9 6
51 Jake Gardiner 0 0 3 3 9 6
2 Ron Hainsey 1 0 2 3 9 8
3 Justin Holl 0 0 0 0 0 0
52 Martin Marincin 0 0 1 1 5 2
8 Jake Muzzin 1 0 1 2 5 6
92 Igor Ozhiganov 0 1 0 1 4 3
44 Morgan Rielly 4 3 4 11 33 33
48 Calle Rosen 0 0 0 0 1 0
22 Nikita Zaitsev 0 0 2 2 6 4
 
Goalkeepers
31 Frederik Andersen 8 3 6 17 30 27.5
30 Michael Hutchinson 0 0 1 1 3 0.5
50 Kasimir Kaskisuo 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
40 Garret Sparks 1 1 4 0 9 6.0
60 Eamon McAdam 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
Matthews cliches the season.
 
MotM:  Hyman
Hm:    Gardiner

Mentions to Kapanen, Moore, Nylander, Matthews, Johnsson, Marner, Kadri, Gauthier, Reilly, Marincin.
 
Game #70: CHI v TOR: Blackhawks 5-4. MotM: Rielly 5/0.  HM: Nylander 0/5. Others: Moore 1/0, Tavares 0/1, Sparks 2/0, Marner 0/1, Matthews 0/1.
Game #71: PHL v TOR: Leafs 7-6.  MotM: Nylander 2/4.  HM: Muzzin 2/2. Others: Marner 1/0, Brown 1/0.
Game #72: TOR v OTT: sens 6-2.  MotM: Nylander 4/1.  HM: Tavares 2/2.  Others: Rielly 1/3, Moore 1/3.
Game  #73: TOR v NSH: Preds 3-0.  MotM: Matthews 7/0 (unanimous).  HM: Zaitsev 0/6.  Others: Rielly 0/1.
Game #74: TOR v BUF: Leafs 4-2.  MotM: Matthews 7/1/ HM: Tavares 1/4.  Others: Johnsson 0/2, Zaitsev 0/1.
Game #75: NYR v TOR: Rangers 2-1.  MotM: Rielly 6/2. HM: Tavares 1/2.  Others: Matthews 0/3, Zaitsev 0/1, Hyman 2/0, Marner 0/1.
Game #76: FLA v TOR: Leafs 7-5.  MotM: Tavares 11/0 (unanimous). HM: Hyman 0/8.  Others: Rielly 0/2, Hainsey 0/1.
Game #77: TOR v PHI: Flyers 5-4 SO.* MotM: Matthews 4/1. HM: Brown 1/4.  Others: Ennis 2/1, Andersen 0/1.
Game #78: TOR v OTT: sens 4-2.  MotM: Matthews 5/1. HM: Marner 2/3.  Others: Rielly 2/2, Brown 0/2, Nylander 0/1.
Game #79: TOR v NYI: Leafs 2-1.  MotM: Andersen 7/6.  HM:  Tavares 7/3.  Others: Hainsey 0/3, Marner 0/1, Rosen 0/1.
Game #80: CAR v TOR: Canes 4-1.  MotM: Tavares 3/1.  HM: Matthews 1/3.  Others: None.
Game #81: TBL v TOR: Them 3-1 or 4-1 I can't remember which.  MotM: Matthews 4/1. HM: Marner 3/2. Others: Marleau 0/2.
Game #82: TOR v MTL: They who will not be going to the playoffs 6/5 SO.  MotM: Matthews 2/2. HM: Gardiner 1/3.  Others: Nylander 0/1, Hyman 2/0, Moore 2/0, Marincin 0/2, Rielly 0/1.

F I N A L  S T A T S

MotM/Win MotM/Loss HonMen Accolades Times Voted Points
Forwards
12 Connor Brown 0 0 2 2 11 2
63 Tyler Ennis 1 0 1 0 8 4
33 Frederick Gauthier 1 0 0 0 7 3
11 Zach Hyman 1 1 6 8 17 11
18 Andreas Johnsson 1 1 6 8 15 8
43 Nazem Kadri 2 3 7 12 19 19
24 Kasperi Kapanen 3 3 4 10 24 19
32 Josh Leivo 0 0 0 0 0 0
26 Par Lindholm 0 0 1 1 3 1
12 Patrick Marleau 0 2 0 2 9 4
16 Mitch Marner 3 6 8 17 39 29
34 Auston Matthews 9 7 5 21 30 46
42 Trevor Moore 0 0 0 0 6 0
29 William Nylander 1 3 5 9 19 14
19 Nic Petan 0 0 0 0 0 0
91 John Tavares 8 2 11 21 37 39
 
Defensemen
55 Andreas Borgman 0 0 0 0 0 0
23 Travis Dermott 1 0 1 2 9 6
51 Jake Gardiner 0 0 4 4 10 8
2 Ron Hainsey 1 0 2 3 9 8
3 Justin Holl 0 0 0 0 0 0
52 Martin Marincin 0 0 1 1 6 2
8 Jake Muzzin 1 0 1 2 5 6
92 Igor Ozhiganov 0 1 0 1 4 3
44 Morgan Rielly 4 3 4 11 34 33
48 Calle Rosen 0 0 0 0 1 0
22 Nikita Zaitsev 0 0 2 2 6 4
 
Goalkeepers
31 Frederik Andersen 8 3 6 17 30 27.5
30 Michael Hutchinson 0 0 1 1 3 0.5
50 Kasimir Kaskisuo 0 0 0 0 0 0.0
40 Garret Sparks 1 1 4 0 9 6.0
60 Eamon McAdam 0 0 0 0 0 0.0

L E A D E R S

POINTS
Matthews 46
Tavares 39
Rielly 33
Marner 29
Andersen 27.5

ACCOLADES
Matthews, Tavares 21
Marner, Andersen 17
Kadri 12

TIMES VOTED
Marner 39
Rielly 34
Matthews, Andersen 30
Kapanen 24

RANDOM OBSERVATIONS
* Rielly jumped out to an early points lead based on his Norris-worthy start.  For awhile I thought he might keep it up and win the Points race, but no.  Still, it's  by far the best showing by a defenseman in the history of this thread.
* Marner took over the Points lead in mid-season, but then -- beginning with Matthews' signing his contract -- he faded badly.
* Matthews surged to the Points championship based on a consistently good final 6 weeks or so.
* Andersen was arguably the team's MVP until the last couple of months, but he never really challenged for the Points leader.
* Kadri got lots of Times  Voted despite having a miserable year.
* Stats that tell you all you need to know about their year:
-- Brown: 2 pts
-- Marleau: 4 pts
-- Zaitsev: 4 pts.

THE MOST TELLING STAT OF ALL
* Until the final game of the season, when Gardiner got a couple of votes to put him at 10 Times Voted, no defenseman other than Rielly  was in double digits in Times Voted.  This means, roughly, that according to our eyeballs, none of our defenseman (except Rielly) played well enough to get an accolade in 7 out of every 8 games played.  Put another way, aside from Rielly we thought all of our defensemen didn't have very good games about 88% of the time.
 
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
* Kadri got lots of Times  Voted despite having a miserable year.
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Or maybe, just maybe, this shows that it wasn't as miserable as some people like to think.
 
A small asterisk for your D observation. Muzzin wasn't with the team all year so going by the games he played for us, chances are he would have had more then 10. Point made though. The D overall was underwhelming including Gardiner. Let's hope for steady play in the playoffs
Either way great job ZBBM.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
* Kadri got lots of Times  Voted despite having a miserable year.
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Or maybe, just maybe, this shows that it wasn't as miserable as some people like to think.
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I don't think it was as bad as people thought. Don't forget his role totally change this year.
 
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
THE MOST TELLING STAT OF ALL
* Until the final game of the season, when Gardiner got a couple of votes to put him at 10 Times Voted, no defenseman other than Rielly  was in double digits in Times Voted.  This means, roughly, that according to our eyeballs, none of our defenseman (except Rielly) played well enough to get an accolade in 7 out of every 8 games played.  Put another way, aside from Rielly we thought all of our defensemen didn't have very good games about 88% of the time.
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Ooof, I like you ZBBM and greatly appreciate your efforts in this whole process, but remind me not to hire you for any statistical analysis jobs. Fact is, generally speaking these votes come down to who scored goals or put up points or if Freddy had a big game. It's very difficult for a defenceman to get action here, something we all acknowledged when we decided to award defencemen more points for when they do. So yeah I'm not going to say our defence was great this season but I don't think these results have anything to do with that. Even if our D were more solid, they'd still get overshadowed here by the big guns who score or by Freddy.

And I mean we can only highlight 2 players per game, but it's not like there are only 2 players who had "very good games" per night. If you look back there were a lot of times where guys like Hainsey or Zaitsev (Or Hyman or Brown) were getting additional hat tips past the 2 primary choices for their defensive efforts or work on the PK.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
THE MOST TELLING STAT OF ALL
* Until the final game of the season, when Gardiner got a couple of votes to put him at 10 Times Voted, no defenseman other than Rielly  was in double digits in Times Voted.  This means, roughly, that according to our eyeballs, none of our defenseman (except Rielly) played well enough to get an accolade in 7 out of every 8 games played.  Put another way, aside from Rielly we thought all of our defensemen didn't have very good games about 88% of the time.
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Ooof, I like you ZBBM and greatly appreciate your efforts in this whole process, but remind me not to hire you for any statistical analysis jobs. Fact is, generally speaking these votes come down to who scored goals or put up points or if Freddy had a big game. It's very difficult for a defenceman to get action here, something we all acknowledged when we decided to award defencemen more points for when they do. So yeah I'm not going to say our defence was great this season but I don't think these results have anything to do with that. Even if our D were more solid, they'd still get overshadowed here by the big guns who score or by Freddy.

And I mean we can only highlight 2 players per game, but it's not like there are only 2 players who had "very good games" per night. If you look back there were a lot of times where guys like Hainsey or Zaitsev (Or Hyman or Brown) were getting additional hat tips past the 2 primary choices for their defensive efforts or work on the PK.
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"Very good" by the standards (and shortcomings) of the MotM thread means one of the two best players that game as judged by a small audience.  I'm not claiming it's a statistically valid analysis in the wider world, I'm just reporting a stat from within our imperfect MotM world.  While not rigorous, it's not worthless either -- people who vote in this thread are fairly knowledgeable about the game.

Just for fun, here are Times Voted from 2014:

4 Cody Franson 9
2 Mark Fraser 0
51 Jake Gardiner 22
8 Tim Gleason 10
Petter Granberg 1
36 Carl Gunnarsson 14
26 John-Michael Liles 1
3 Dion Phaneuf 21
15 Paul Ranger 8
44 Morgan Rielly 19

And from last year:

8 Connor Carrick7
20 Frank Corrado 0
51 Jake Gardiner 20
2 Matt Hunwick 8
3 Alexey Marchenko 1
52 Martin Marincin 4
46 Roman Polak 12
44 Morgan Rielly 13
22 Nikita Zaitsev 16

What does this mean?  Nothing, from an objective stats perspective.  But it does indicate that we were less impressed with the D this year, (outside of Rielly).
 
Yeah, there isn't much to be gleaned other than fun, but that's the most important thing. Thanks ZBBM.

There were lots of games where Matthews and Reilly were bordering on awful defensively and sometimes invisible offensively, but scored a critical goal, and immediately became the MOTM. At the end of the day, that's the kind of thing one has to couch - who gave the best effort, or who made the most difference in the outcome. It's the latter that most gravitate to. For me, Marner was the best player on the roster, game in and game out.


 
BTW I just discovered on my hard disk all the MotM numbers going back to 2010-11.  (We didn't calculate it the same back then.)  I guess I forgot we'd been doing it that long.

Here's our lineup for 2010-11:

9 Colby Armstrong
47 Darryl Boyce
42 Tyler Bozak
37 Tim Brent
18 Mike Brown
33 Luca Caputi
32 Joe Colborne
46 Joey Crabb
39 Matt Frattin
84 Mikhail Grabovski
20 Christian Hanson
43 Nazem Kadri
81 Phil Kessel
41 Nikolai Kulemin
19 Joffrey Lupul
16 Clarke MacArthur
39 John Mitchell
45 Marcel Mueller
28 Colton Orr
38 Jay Rosehill
11 Fredrik Sj?str?m
32 Kris Versteeg
26 Michael Zigomanis

Defencemen
59 Keith Aulie
22 Fran?ois Beauchemin (A)
36 Carl Gunnarsson
55 Korbinian Holzer
15 Tomas Kaberle
8 Mike Komisarek (A)
29 Matt Lashoff
23 Brett Lebda
3 Dion Phaneuf (Cpn)
2 Luke Schenn

Goalkeepers
35 Jean-Sebastien Giguere
50 Jonas Gustavsson
34 James Reimer
Ben Scrivens

Boyce?  Brent?  Caputi?  Sjostrom?  Zigomanis?  I can't even remember those guys.

Boy, did we suck.
 
I'll go in a different direction with this then. Marner was only received votes in 39 games, Tavares 37, Matthews 30. So would you say that those players only had "very good" games in about 45% of the ones they played in? That seems probably a little off, right?

Anyway, like I said I love what this brings to our post-game discussions, and I think it's a pretty good tool as well for MVP discussions at the end of the season. I just wouldn't really be doing any "deep dives" with the data, that's all.
 
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