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Originally Posted by GioforPM
More for me it records nothing about what the player did that led to the plus or the minus, if anything. Example - I’ve seen Huberdeau get a minus from the opposite side of the ice - nothing to do with him. I’ve seen Coleman score on a transition just when Huberdeau got off on the line change. No plus for Huberdeau.
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Yeah, but this is true for every hockey stat. It's a team game, and if things go well when you're on the ice, you get positive stats. If they go poorly, you get negative ones. Regardless of your individual contribution to the events. Also, line-mates and deployment/usage matter tremendously. As does luck.
Hockey stats are blunt and largely uninformative. All of them. I never understood why people want to single out +- for this fact, when it's true across the board.