Quoting: t2a2e9j12k2
plus minus is a horrible stat to base defensive ability on. Faulk is not very good on d this is true but he is better than gardiner. his cap hit is 4.8 million that is 59 of the top 100 highest average cap hit d men not that bad
ALL stats are, to some extent, defective or misleading. I remember a piece (well before your time) by the L.A. Times hockey beat reporter disparaging the plus-minus stat. As part of his evidence he pointed to an episode from a Kings game in which Marty McSorley made a bad pinch, turned the puck over and sending the visiting team the other way. Marty turned around, went to the bench (as Wayne changed, too) and as his replacement hopped onto the ice, the puck went into the net, resulting in a minus for the entirely innocent player. But plus-minus, as flawed as it is, does have some utility. When a selection of comparable players all have a plus-minus over three years ranging from minus 4 to plus 38 and a similarly comparable player’s plus-minus over those three years is minus 66, something about the outlier is wrong defensively.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of defenders who have averaged 30 points or more over the last three seasons. None of them is his team’s no. 1 defenseman and none of them led his team’s defensemen in scoring in any one of those 3 years: Muzzin, Goligoski, (Faulk,) Spurgeon, Parayko, Niskanen, Ellis, Martinez, Ekholm, Vatanen. Both honest, dispassionate analysis and plus-minus tell us that we shouldn’t trade any of them even up for Faulk.
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