Tomas Kaberle has the best career assists per game ratio of any active Defenceman.

[Ash35]

0.484

I did not know that ....and that was your fun fact of the day.

http://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/records/nhl-active-defensemen-all-time-assists-per-game-leaders.html

Click to read more...

 

[GordieHoweHatTrick]

Not at all surprised. He was a very good Maple Leaf who would have retired here if he could. As soon as he left its like he got homesick because his production dipped

 

[AINEC*]

Oh hey, Phaneuf is 1 goal shy of the 100 mark.

 

[thewave]

And yet Kabs is sitting out. Played 6 this year at age 34.

 

[VanW27]

And yet Kabs is sitting out. Played 6 this year at age 34.

Sad to see what has happened to him, he was a hell of a player. But he has not been the same since the Janssen hit, add in years of losing before being run out of town and we have the player we see today.

 

[Grandrift145]

the jansen hit was the turning point of his career

before that he was one of the best PMD

 

[Conan]

To Montreal:
Komisarek



To Toronto:
Kaberle
4th Rounder

 

[Hockey Talker29]

To Montreal:
Komisarek



To Toronto:
Kaberle
4th Rounder

Let's do it. I think that legitimately works for both teams.

 

[666]

0.484

I did not know that ....and that was your fun fact of the day.

http://www.quanthockey.com/nhl/records/nhl-active-defensemen-all-time-assists-per-game-leaders.html

A while back in this thread, Kaberle was 27th ALL TIME in points per game.

 

[Mansfield]

cool

 

[Alflives*]

Kaberle is done, and worth negative value. It's not what he has done; it's what he can do now.

Every player (even the great ones like Kaberle) get old.

 

[ponder]

I don't really agree that the Jansen hit ruined him. That was late in the 06/07 season, but he was basically every bit as good in 07/08 as he was in 06/07. His decline was slow and steady, TONNES of players drop off sharply in their early 30s, it's the exception, not the rule, for players to still be effective in their late 30s.

We should also remember that Kaberle in his prime feasted on the PP. His huge point season was in 05/06, the first year after the lockout, when there were an INSANE number of PPs called, and virtually all players who got a lot of PP time put up career numbers. Kaberle had 67 points that year, but an insane 51 of them were on the PP. In no other year did he have more than 30 PP points, it was clearly unsustainable production for him, and had A LOT to do with how the league was being reffed back then. He was really more of a 50ish point guy during his prime, and mostly put up that nuts year due to the massive number of PPs league wide in 05/06.

In his prime Kaberle was an elite skater, passer and puck mover, but he was also always very soft, very easily outmuscled in his own end, and he was never much of a shooter. As time went on his weaknesses became a bit worse, and his strengths less strong, so he slowly degraded into a liability. He was never a real all-around player though, he was always a guy who was elite in certain areas, and pretty weak in other areas.