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Originally Posted by CSharp
If it's Ovechkin where he's got a -36 and he's scoring 35 gaols, that's a -71 goal differential. That means all he's doing is cherry picking while his team is doing all the work trying to stay alive.
Other than that, the +/- stat don't mean much for a single player. You have to look at the other 5 players on the ice at that moment in time. If a line is always a minus, the coach better look at this an shuffle the lines around to resolve that issue since you don't want to be scored on all the time when using the same line on the ice. It also depends on what other lines are matched up against the opposition. So, the +/- really means didly-squat for an individual stat record, except for Ovechkin.
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You need to account for PP goals. -36 + scoring 35 goals does not equate to a -71 goal differential.