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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
This is why +/- gets such a bad reputation, because people use it in the context of defense only. At it's rawest form, it's basically goal differential which is important because at its best, it's a great effectiveness stat. I'd much rather have my players on the plus side than the minus.
Anyway you slice it, if Monahan wants to play higher up the line up, then his goals allowed has to go down because if he isn't scoring, then he better defend up to par. But his 5 on 5 goal differential reads as 18 GF vs 29 GA. Not a good ratio for a team as good as the Flames are this season. Maybe that ratio would fly on a bad team, but not a division leading Darryl Sutter team with aspirations of the Stanley Cup.
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But even there, when you break it down further, there’s a big difference when he switches linemates, He’s positive with Toffoli or Mangiapane, negative with Lucic and Dube (unless one of the first two were part of the equation).