Ryan Dixon at The Hockey News looks at some absurdities of this early NHL season including this one about the Rangers Nikolai Zherdev..."Nikolai Zherdev, minus-52 for his career entering this season, has the best plus/minus in the NHL at plus-9. (Tied with Carolina’s Niclas Wallin.)"
...make that leading the league with plus-11 after last night.
...i think plus/minus is an over-rated stat in the NHL. Remember the gaudy plus/minus numbers Marek Malik put up as a Ranger which had nothing to do with his talent (or lack of it) and everything to do with him playing with Jagr.
...obviously Zherdev's plus/minus in Columbus were awful. He was a young player on a bad team. He's now on a successful team with a defined defensive system that he's bought into. Oh yeah and he's offensive skills are limitless.
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