Myers has been on the ice for 29.6 scoring chances against per-60 at even-strength. When the Canucks goalie has been in net, he’s typically making Myers look stronger than he actually is. Myers currently leads all Canucks, having been on the ice for 10 empty-net goals scored this season. It excludes power play goals but does count even-strength, shorthanded, and empty-net goals. Plus/minus is a straight measure of whether a player is on the ice when his team scores or gets scored on. However, there’s a reason why this statistic is deceiving.
Myers has been better defensively this season and that’s reflected in his team-leading plus/minus. That total is also a career-high for him. Plus/minus is an old-school hockey statistic that doesn’t get a lot of love nowadays.Ĭurrently, Myers’ leads all Canucks skaters at +21 on the season. It’s also only the second time he’s contributed more than 4.0 DPS during his 13 NHL seasons. That’s the highest DPS he’s posted since his rookie season, when he had 5.8 DPS as a 19-year-old in Buffalo. So far this season, Myers has contributed 5.3 defensive point shares to the Canucks. While the stat has its flaws (such as relying on plus/minus, more on that below), it does give a gauge of where Myers’ defensive performance ranks against his career norm. We can measure Myers against himself by using Hockey Reference’s Defensive Point Shares (DPS) metric. Myers went from one of the worst defensive defenders in the NHL over the last few seasons, to a respectable shutdown defenceman this season. Taking that into consideration, it’s been a pleasant surprise to see Myers post the lowest Corsi-against, shots-against, and expected goals-against totals during his time with the Canucks. With the longest-tenured Canuck gone from the roster, Myers and Ekman-Larsson became the de facto shutdown duo.
That’s important to remember when analyzing Myers’ defensive bounce-back because that wasn’t a role he was thrust into earlier in his tenure with the Canucks.ĭuring his first two seasons in Vancouver, it was typically any pair featuring Alex Edler that took on the tough matchups. Travis Green paired Myers and Oliver Ekman-Larsson together at the start of the season, and the duo formed an unlikely shutdown pair. The low bar was part of the reason why it’s been semi-surprising to see him turn it around this season. We talking about Tyler Myers? #Canucks /Wjl0N6r3Rc Even though last year was bad for almost every Canuck player, Myers’ 3.02 goals against per 60 minutes was the worst mark of his career. He went from fine in 2019-20 to brutal last season. What Myers has done well this seasonĬoming into this season, Myers had set the bar pretty low for himself defensively. There is an argument that his “bounce-back” is overblown, but let’s start by taking a look at where Myers has improved this season. Heck, recent analysis from The Athletic pegged Myers’s true value at $1.6 million.Īlthough he’s overpaid, Myers has done well to boost his value this season with a defensive performance above his recent norm.
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When he signed a five-year, $30 million contract in free agency back in 2019, there were no shortage of critics. His massive frame makes him hard to miss, which both helps and hurts his reputation.ĭespite Myers’s uneven play, this has easily been his best season as a Vancouver Canuck. The hulking defenceman is a complicated player. If there was an award for the NHL’s most polarizing player, Tyler Myers would be in the running.
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