one game? He also got rocked by the Penguins
-8 in two games.... in a way cost us the two games
look you can't discount the positives he has also done for the team
but at the end of the day, Krug + playoffs ..............its not a comforting feeling
I'm not discounting his warts, because he does have them.
However, -8 in two games, while awful, is more of a team breakdown than an individual player. Hence why +/- is a poor stat. They played poorly against both teams, even though they made it back into each game at some point.
Let's look at the CBJ game for example, since on the stat sheet, -5 really does jump out at you.
Two of those goals against CBJ that I put squareley on him. The first goal where Anderson just flat out burned him, and the SHG where he had the puck stolen enterting the zone, and Jenner finished it off. No other way around it, especially the SHG.
For the other three?
He got stuck out on the ice with that garbage 3rd line and Kampfer, took his assignment out of the play, and Kampfer did absolutely nothing to prevent Dzingel from getting 3 attempts from the crease before scoring.
On the Duchene goal, Krug is watching Dzingel while he is set up behind the net, taking away half of his options to pass, and the other 4 guys on the ice let Duchene skate directly into the slot and bury it.
Last -1 was the ENG when down by two.
For posterity, prior to the last two disasters...
Previous 10 games: 1G 6A +5
Previous 20 games: 1G 15A +10
They are absolutely still a better team with him on it, than not there.