Everyone is justifiably excited, because the Toronto Maple Leafs have just picked up one of the NHL’s best players, but exactly how good is Tavares? Where does he rank in terms of the overall NHL best player list?
Last season, his second best in the NHL, Tavares scored 37 goals and 84 points in 82 games. This is impressive, but in order to find out how good Tavares is, we’ll have to dig down a little deeper.
Last season, for the first time in four seasons, Tavares had a possession rating under 50%. This, however, is not so bad when you take into account that he was a positive Corsi relative to his team.