+/- suucks
he just a shot blocker. despite an extremely generous shooting percentage he has a negative xg/60%. not to mention he is an absolute black-hole on the offensive side:
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and for what? $6.75 milly cap hit to take over for de haan? get the f*** outta here. thats almost stamkos resigning money for a guy that can block shots.
what do you want us to do? trade sergachev who is a decade younger and a better offensive defenseman? how myopic.
i just wrote "McD" on a paper and crinkled it up and threw it in a trash bin i labeled 'bad defenseman'
These are the kind of posts that give the advanced stat community a bad name. Yes, +/- isn't a great gauge of performance without context, for instance at one point Marc Andre Bergeron, one of the worst defensemen ever to put on a pair of skates at this level, led the league in +/- by a significant margin at midseason. I gave you context though, McDonagh plays against the other teams best players in the highest leverage situations, 67% of his draws are in the defensive zone and yet he still had the best +/- in Nashville last year. This isn't MAB getting 80% of his draws in the ozone.
Speaking of unfair zone draws, let's compare that to your boy Sergachev who has never played above 50% in the Dzone, my god this is the first year Sergachev hasn't been given sheltered minutes at the start and he's -5. I can only imagine how shit he'd appear if given the types of matchups McD has been given, and for the record I am a big Sergachev fan but he should never be the pre-dominant defensive guy on his pairing, he needs protection, and right now we are desperately short on any defender who can play a steady game without looking totally lost in the defensive zone. Sergy is being paid like someone who should be able to do that, and he's not.
And that brings us to the absurdity of you invoking relative stats to show how bad McDonagh has been. If a player gets 67% dzone starts and is on the #1 PK unit, his team is going to give up more shots/goals while on the ice. If a player only gets 33% ozone starts and no PP time, his team is going to shoot and score less while he's on the ice. This isn't rocket science, and shouldn't be used as evidence to justify why one player is better than another
The eyeball test should be the primary gauge of how a team is playing, and watching this team with Sergachev on the ice makes me want to gauge them out.
Trash can with McD in it, that's cute