Teammates With Notable Plus/Minus Differences

[decma]

Following up on Dennis Bonvie's point in the Perreault thread about the notable difference in career +/- between Perreault and Craig Ramsey, and Nick Hansen's suggestion for a thread on noteworthy +/- differences between players on the same team for an extended period of time, I took a look at some.

I tried to avoid getting linemates (though some these guys did have some ES shifts together) and used a five-season minimum (per Nick Hansen's suggestion).

Here are some I found with notable differences:

Gretzky and Messier (79/80 to 87/88)
+551 vs +144
difference of 45 per season

Clarke and MacLeish (72/73 to 80/81)
+386 vs +191
difference of 22 per season

Ramsey and Perreault (71/72 to 84/85)
+326 vs +90
difference of 17 per season

Ehlers and Connor (16/17 to today)
+80 vs -18
difference of 14 per season

Naslund and Walter (82/83 to 89/90)
+120 vs +10
difference of 14 per season

Dionne and Nicholls (82/83 to 86/87)
-1 vs -69
difference of 14 per season

Steen and Hawerchuk (81/82 to 89/90)
-14 vs -87
difference of 8 per season

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[MadLuke]

Crosby and Malkin (06/07 to 23/24)
+227 vs +49

Around 12.8 by 82 games played (which is close after all, 1162 vs 1116), Letang was +101 in that stretch.

Lindros and Rod Brind'Amour (92/93 to 98/99)
+177 vs +2
431 vs 541 games played, around +25 by seasons or +33 by 82 games Lindros played, LeClair was +152, Desjardins +83

Toews and Kane (07/08 to 15/16)
+187 vs +68
+13 by season difference, very similar amount of game played, Keith was +161

 

[Michael Farkas]

Penguins 1997-98 thru 1999-00 -
Jagr +59 / Rob Brown -29 = +/- 88; just short of 30 per year

Penguins 1987-88 thru 1991-92 -
Lemieux +81 / Paul Coffey -50 = +/- 131 in under five years, 30ish per year

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[The Panther]

Penguins Nov. 12th 1986 to Jan. 8th 1990:
+62 Mario Lemieux
-47 Dan Quinn

Kings 1978-79 to 1980-81:
+113 Dave Taylor
-71 Steve Jensen

 

[GlitchMarner]

Edmonton Oilers 2015-2016 to 2023-2024:

Connor McDavid: +139
Leon Draisaitl: +61
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins: -1

Pretty significant differences.

Per 82 games played:

McDavid: +18.38
Draisaitl: +7.64
RNH: -0.14


Colorado Avalanche 1995-1996 to 2003-2004:

Peter Forsberg: +190
Joe Sakic: +129

Per 82 games played:

Forsberg: +29
Sakic: +16.34


Detroit Red Wings 1993-1994 to 2002-2003:

Sergei Fedorov: +206
Steve Yzerman: +128

Per 82 games played:

Fedorov: +24.91
Yzerman: +16.90

 

[MadLuke]

79-80 to 86-87

Bourque: +293
MIlbury: +74 (the other bruins Ds with the most games)

87-88 to 93-94
Bourque: +193
Wesley: +40 (the other bruins Ds with the most games)

A bit of a pattern here.

 

[klefbombs shoulder]

18-19 to 23-24

Matthews: +111
Marner: +105


Tavares: +7
Nylander: +7

 

[Dennis Bonvie]

Penguins 1997-98 thru 1999-00 -
Jagr +59 / Rob Brown -29 = +/- 88; just short of 30 per year

Penguins 1987-88 thru 1991-92 -
Lemieux +81 / Paul Coffey -50 = +/- 131 in under five years, 30ish per year

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