[Flames Draft Watcher]

Originally Posted by Bandwagon In Flames

You have the word Corsi in your damn name. Yet you ignore the most basic and telling stat there is to judge a defensemen.

The reason +/- is a bad stat to judge is because it's just as much as result of being on a good team as it is determining if your a good player. But when you see that his linemate is a +10 while having 10 points to his name, the stat becomes a lot more useful.

TJ Brodie is great offensively and defensively. This is proven by having a top-20 +/- stat on a bottom dwelling team.

Karlsson is a career -19. That means that 5 on 5 he gets scored on more than he scores. That's hard to do for someone who scores as much as he does.

owned. out of thanks