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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I don't know why it's tracked. It's a useless stat that still gets reported on because it's always been reported on even though it tells you little to nothing, and there are far more telling metrics that can be used.
If a team is making personnel decisions using plus/minus they are utter fools.
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Looking at his stats one thing I see really interesting is the flip on offensive zone and defensive zone starts.
Through all of Andersson's career he has had 55-60% of his starts in the O zone but this season he only had 45% in the O zone and 55 in the D zone.
The fact that he matched his career best goal scoring (11) this season with increased D zone deployments is a pretty good thing. I also think that the other changes in his stats point directly to his big jump in tougher D-zone deployments moreso than some eyeball test of decline in his play.