seventieslord
Student Of The Game
well thank goodness overpass beat me to this thread.
This post had 10 likes. What it never had was 10 people looking at these figures and saying to themselves, "wait, Kevin Lowe was a -56 over two seasons with the playoff-bound Oilers? I gotta go check this out... (5 seconds later)... hey, waittaminute..."
Yes, Kevin Lowe, who was not used on the powerplay over those two seasons (2 PPGF), and killed a lot of penalties (55 PPGA), was on the ice for 56 more goals against than goals for. Wow, really, you don't say!!!
Panther, who has me blocked for repeatedly calling him out for his repeated "creative" (useless) use of the GF/GA statistics, will never see this, unless someone quotes me. What's interesting is there are only two people in this section who ever use the raw +/- numbers this way, and they're both people with a clear interest in insulating Wayne Gretzky from the notion that any other player could possibly be even close to as good as him.
These last two years, the Oilers were outscored 145 to 89 when Lowe was on the ice.
For five seasons in a row, from '90 to '94, each team Lowe played on (incl. two Cup winners) were outscored when he was on the ice.
This post had 10 likes. What it never had was 10 people looking at these figures and saying to themselves, "wait, Kevin Lowe was a -56 over two seasons with the playoff-bound Oilers? I gotta go check this out... (5 seconds later)... hey, waittaminute..."
Yes, Kevin Lowe, who was not used on the powerplay over those two seasons (2 PPGF), and killed a lot of penalties (55 PPGA), was on the ice for 56 more goals against than goals for. Wow, really, you don't say!!!
Panther, who has me blocked for repeatedly calling him out for his repeated "creative" (useless) use of the GF/GA statistics, will never see this, unless someone quotes me. What's interesting is there are only two people in this section who ever use the raw +/- numbers this way, and they're both people with a clear interest in insulating Wayne Gretzky from the notion that any other player could possibly be even close to as good as him.