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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
It doesn’t mean he was the worst player in the league defensively, no.
But it very clearly does mean that he’s not good defensively.
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I don’t think it means that necessarily. It can mean that he plays a lot of minutes against players that can score lots of goals. And since Scheifele has never been a minus player, more goals have been scored by his team than the other way around when he’s been on the ice.
A guy that never plays lots of minutes against the Ovechkins and McDavids, but rather gets sheltered a bit, like Monahan, we’d all accept is not as good defensively as a Scheifele or a Horvat.