Moronic thinking. And Severson is last regardless and significantly worse than his most common linemate. Christ. Watch a game. I shouldn't have to argue he has been poor defensively and picking up guys off the rush.
You can poke a hole in every single statistic one way or another. That doesn't mean said statistic is completely useless.
This statement is common sense: +/- in a vacuum is worthless. +/- relative to team, ES scoring, opposition, and common linemates is not.
Triumph, aren't you the one who was spouting advanced statistics trying to defend Josefson that I disproved pretty easily during the offseason? Might have been someone else.
Last post on this, but I do enjoy yelling at clouds..
Severson away from Greene is at a 30% GF rate over 200 minutes. Now does it make any sense to you that Damon Severson would suddenly turn into the worst player in the NHL away from Greene? That he would have a GF rate worse than any defenseman who played 1000 minutes between 2007 and 2016? No, it doesn't make any sense. It makes sense if you are fooled into thinking that goals are the only events that can tell us anything about how good a player is playing.
So sure, Severson's missed a check or a man's gotten by him - hockey's a game of mistakes, but regardless Damon has been making a few too many. That player who benefits from Severson's mistakes still has to score, and he has been. Meanwhile, Severson's on-ice goals-for away from Greene is once again worse than any defenseman who's played 1000 minutes over the last 9 years.
The long and short of it is that the Devils are scoring less goals with Severson on the ice than any other defenseman, even though I think we can all agree he is probably the Devils' best offensive defenseman. It just goes to show that there are 5 other guys out there and they also have to do their jobs - Severson can only do so much. He's not going to score many goals himself.
