"playing well relative to his ability."
I guess those words can be repeated for several players.
But in reality all that means is the player at his best is not good enough.
The saddest Flyers team in a long time. As sad as 2007 was at least they were more entertaining.
- flyers2001
In terms of MacDonald, what it means is that you have to take into account that the Flyers are asking him to play on the top defense pairing, and against top lines, when looking at how he is playing.