LTIR Trickery
Plz stop pucks
Agreed. I believe he has the highest +/- for a defenseman on the team. I don't buy into +/- as a pin-point stat, but when you see pretty big statements, they're usually reflective of something. It's a stat that'll point you in the direction of an answer rather than give a definitive one.
That's not saying that Barbs is a great defensive player - he's clearly not. The eye test trumps plus/minus there. However, he also does some things right, does other things very well, and these things keep us out of our own end while he's on the ice. He's a player that doesn't get credit for what he does well and gets more flack than he deserves for his mistakes.
Exactly. Defensively, he still ***** the bed, and this is expected at that age... but if he even has an extra inch of space to move, hes going north-south which a lot of guys keep avoiding doing.