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Originally Posted by The Cobra
Yet, when he was injured, Chicago couldn’t score for dear life, nor could they win.
When he came back, while they were bad, they actually started winning games and climbed ahead of SJ.
The Hawks were not way worse with Bedard on the ice.
Plus/minus tells a partial story. It’s very unreliable.
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Your story tells a partial story. Unfortunately it is anecdotal. Statistical noise, basically
3-10-1 (.250 point percentage) without Bedsy compared to a 20-43-5 record (.330 point percentage) with him
They were literally one win (4-9-1 = .320) off of a pretty much identical win%
Even statistics are expressed in confidence intervals 19 times out of 20
Sorry, my friend. Sample size considered, this is insignificant. The team was pretty much equally bad in terms of scores with and without him
Naturally, he should have improved (and likely did) as the year went on
But comparing historically low win percents with and without him, he’s clearly not a difference maker in a positive way… yet