Just because your a giant doesn't mean you can scrap, or your tough. It's just means your a giant.
No, but when you're a giant defenceman with professional hockey aspirations, who loves to hit, it's often a pretty good guess. Anyways, it's not something I'm terribly concerned about.
While it remains a deeply flawed stat, it is interesting to note that Kanzig is +26 as a Hitman, which is third best on the team - and he played 20 less games in Calgary than the two players ahead of him. He was also +5 in Victoria in 21 games and would have been one of the higher ranked players on that team at the time.
It's all observational and subjective, but while I have noticed Kanzig takes too many roughing penalties, I am hard pressed to think of many instances where he was on the ice for a goal against - or at least, enough of a goat where I noticed - even though the team itself has not improved its defence at all since the trade.
The Hitmen were 12-7-3 (.614) with 3.63GPG and 2.91GAPG pre-trade
19-10-2 (.645) with 4.74GPG and 2.90GAPG since.
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While it remains a deeply flawed stat, it is interesting to note that Kanzig is +26 as a Hitman, which is third best on the team - and he played 20 less games in Calgary than the two players ahead of him. He was also +5 in Victoria in 21 games and would have been one of the higher ranked players on that team at the time.
It's all observational and subjective, but while I have noticed Kanzig takes too many roughing penalties, I am hard pressed to think of many instances where he was on the ice for a goal against - or at least, enough of a goat where I noticed - even though the team itself has not improved its defence at all since the trade.
The Hitmen were 12-7-3 (.614) with 3.63GPG and 2.91GAPG pre-trade
19-10-2 (.645) with 4.74GPG and 2.90GAPG since.
While there are a lot of very good players who have bad +/-, there arent many bad players who have a very good +/-.
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