Advanced analytics are good. Hockey is an extremely nuanced sport where seemingly innocuous happenings can have great effects on outcomes, and anything we can do to understand it more fully should be appreciated. But analytics, or maybe the people reading them, seem to fail at diagnosing the success this New York Islanders team has seen in this recent stretch.
I recently went back to an old piece from January of 2018 done by Steve Bowman. Then of Forever Blueshirts, Bowman queried on which new-age stat was the best indicator of success in the NHL. At the risk of being maligned for linking to a Rangers site, I'll leave his interesting study here.