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Originally Posted by Bandwagon In Flames
Oh and by the way, that beast of a defensemen Chris Pronger who led his crap team to the playoffs, has had the highest +/- in the league in 2 separate years.
If you want to talk about Correlation vs. Causation, I think this stat applies.
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Other defensemen that have dominated the +/- stat (and I mean seriously dominated):
Bobby Orr
Denis Potvin
Larry Robinson
Nick Lidstrom
Ray Bourque
Coincidentally, most people would include at least 3 or 4 of those guys (if not all 5) on their list of top 5 defensemen of all time.
Karlsson's negative +/- is a bit of a thing.
And yes, I know +/- is a team stat.
But historically great players tend to have great teams rise up around them.