How is it that no matter who Edler is paired with his numbers keep dropping...while the 5 other defenseman seem to benefit when not paired with him? That can't just be luck, it's too much of a variance.
sh% is variance. HE CAN NOT INFLUENCE THE SH% OF CANUCKS FORWARDS. if they weren't getting shots on net, not getting chances, like every player would do better without edler from possession stand point, your argument would make sense. but that is not the case.
is it right toput it on edler on that sedin's, kesler, hansen, higgins and burrows have combined for 7 goals all year when playing with edler, despite them getting more chances to score with edler than when they have been without him?
some could be attributed to bad play but most, absolutely not.
there have been lots of players who have had as bad on-ice sh% as edler, with as good track record. they have bounced back. coburn, campbell, jordan staal are similar players just from last year. andy greene few years back, same with erik karlsson and subban. with karlsson is was the year before he won the norris and went something like -30. they had that same variance, same bad luck and they bounced back.
there have been
zero players, who have maintained as low on-ice sh% long-term since 07 (data isn't available beyond that).
edler's on ice sh% from 07-13: 8.03
this year: 4.53
and actually little lower after last night.
jason garrison has been his most frequent partner.
here is garrison's shot attempt percent with edler: 50.4%
here is without edler: 46.6%
garrison has been doing better with edler on shot attempts. puck just hasn't gone in and has gone in slightly more to canucks net. past 6 years that i have looked there is
no other dman that hasn't bounced back from similar situation, and has maintained as bad sh% long-term.
bieksa is the only other dman he's played even fairly significant minutes and there is similar thing with him (except he's even in +/- with him).
players suffering from bad sh% has happened lots of times before, players who get minuses like that while being good to very good possession players has basically
never happened long-term. well might have happened in 80s or 90 as one doesn't have the stats from those days but it was different game back then anyway.
Lidstrom is not comparable to Edler. He always played against the other teams top players. Edler had been playing on the middle or bottom pair presumably matched up against the other teams bottom 6 players when it could be helped.
edler was used against top opposition as a shutdown guy to start the season.
some players he's been up against most this season (not from the same team).
thornton
zubrus (plays on jagr line mostly, jagr is few mins back)
perron (EDM best ES player this year)
bäcklund (hudler played on the same line, but 30 secs less against him)
doan
kopitar
perry
patrick kane
top opposition most of the time. didn't look further that closely as the sample sizes started to get that small. he's been up against the other team's bottom 6 players but so was lidström that last norris year. both were mostly against one of the two top lines. lidström played fair amount against sobotka's, smithson's, spaling's etc. every player is sometimes against bottom 6 players.
the point was to say that he hasn't been on the ice against exceptional amount of goals, anyway. it was that he has been on the ice for exceptionally few goals.
