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Originally Posted by Hondaracer
As well, if manny is only a - player because he's the one taking defensive zone face offs, why are none of the players who also kill penalties even close to his +\-?
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I have literally no loyalty to Malholtra, and I do think there are better 4th line centres in the league............ but he's not even really our 4th line centre... Lappierre is... he just comes out, takes faceoffs, dumps it in and changes. That's it.
You do not get a minus when you are scored against in shorthanded situations.
I look at that stat for Malholtra like this ----> his line has only been scored on at even strength in faceoffs that occurred within the Canucks zone ~15 times on the whole season. That's pretty decent.
I'm not emotionally tied to him, but he's far from horrible... and even if he is the "worst player on the Canucks" someone has to be that person on the roster and even then he's still better than a lot of players on a lot of other teams and that's what counts.