Quoting: JaredOfLondon
Risto is just bad, he's always been bad. he is a reason all his teams have been bad and every single player improves when he isnt around. He's garbage. And no, it's not impossible for any defender to put up good numbers in those situations because good players do it all the time. Literally all the time, that's how you know they are good players. Not because they are tall and throw hits. Every single person who understands stats at all understands this, that's why smart teams dont trade for him.
Lindholm was a very good defender for a long time and then got old so he couldnt do it by himself anymore and then when he was put on a good team with support his hockey smarts were able to shine through Risto does not have that. He has never had that, he will never have that. Doughty is the same way, and he's still not very good anymore.
It's almost like when you use context, and contextualize the stats and situation it is very easy to see what is going on.
You're truly oblivious dude. When you contextualize the stats, you can see they correlate to the strength of the team that player is playing on. It's literally plain as day when you look at the statistics for guys like Doughty, Lindholm, Jones, Orlov, Muzzin, Martinez, literally every defenseman who has played on both good and bad teams, but in your opinion what's actually going on here is that Lindholm was good, but then when his team started to suck he was old, but then when he went to a better team he went from being old and bad to 4th in Norris trophy voting because HE WAS PUT ON A GOOD TEAM WITH SUPPORT! You finally got there, I'm so proud of you.
Risto has never had the opportunity to play on a good team and was always employed as a shutdown defender despite the "statistical data" suggesting he was the worst defensive player, almost like his usage had something to do with that... You think any one of McCabe, Holl, or Lyubushkin is more talented than Risto? He was a former 8th overall pick and has a great toolset. He just needs "A GOOD TEAM WITH SUPPORT".
And no, it's literally never the case that defenders tasked with shutdown minutes on rebuilding teams have good anayltics, not for Norris winner Drew Doughy, not for Norris runner-up Seth Jones, not for 4th place finisher Hampus Lindholm, not for anyone. Why? Because hockey is a team sport, something that should be very easy to understand.
Not to mention that he actually put up pretty solid numbers in his role this past year, more impressive even than Sanheim and Provorov. Meanwhile fans like you think Hollowell, Mete and Benn are all top 4 defensemen as soon as they have to fill in for injuries on a team like the Leafs.
You're truly hopeless, so I think this is farewell my friend.