plus minus stat roger maynard shares his views with the masses on bob gainey and life in general in apr sol uvic ca gballent hudson uvic ca greg ballentine writes the selke candidate forwards main purpose on a shift is to prevent goals from being scored not to score them when lemieux or gilmour play their number one purpose is to score defence is secondary especially considering the line that plays against them is probably a defensive one that is why they are not selke candidates gainey is the best defensive forward ever i stand by that assessment he was a very good player who belongs in the hall of fame did you ever watch him play he never made a technical error i watched him over his entire career i have never seen a player and that includes russell courtnall and davie keon screw up as many breakaways as bob gainey and i will never forget the time denis potvin caught gainey with his head down you have been sold a bill of goods on bob gainey it was bryan trottier not denis potvin it was a vicious boarding from behind trottier was given a major but roger what the hell does this have to do with gainey s skill as a hockey player if probert smashes gilmour s head into the boards next week will that diminish your assessment of gilmour s skills gainey was a plugger and when the press runs out of things to say about the stars on dynasties they start to hype the pluggers grant fuhr essa tikkannen butch goring bob nystrom bob gainey doug jarvis derek sanderson wayne cashman bob baun bob pulford ralph backstrom henri richard dick duff and so on i would take fuhr and sanderson off of the latter i think gainey would be honoured to know that you ve included him on this list i also think you have a relatively naive view about what wins a hockey game pluggers are an integral part of any team the selke is designed to acknowledge their contribution i think that most people understand that it s not the nobel prize so settle down cordially as always rm roger maynard maynard ramsey cs laurentian ca congenially as always jd james david david student business uwo ca j david sms business uwo ca james david western business school london ontario
