re plus minus stat in article apr ramsey cs laurentian ca maynard ramsey cs laurentian ca roger maynard writes from maynard ramsey cs laurentian ca roger maynard subject re plus minus stat date wed apr gmt in dreier apr jacobi berkeley edu dreier jacobi berkeley edu roland dreier writes selanne s leads the jets teppo numminen is who do you think is better defensively ron francis of the penguins is although he has points while jaromir jagr has only points but is is jagr really better on defense than francis and how exactly should we interpret the fact that mario lemieux has by far the highest in the league does he get the selke as well as the ross the plus minus does not measure defense alone it attempts to measure a player s total contribution to the team effort and certainly it is far from perfect and my posting never implied otherwise all that my posting suggested was that the was a better indicator of a player s effectiveness when examined in the context of that player s team s performance than mere scoring totals alone and as for mario getting the selke why not after doug gilmour i would rather have lemieux on the ice in any situation other than as an enforcer obvi ously than any player in the game i used to call the selke the bob gainey award it came about as a result of the statement made by anatoli tarasov bob gainey is the best hockey player in the world i am sure that tarasov was either misquoted originally or had a tiny bit too much vodka and was toying with a reporter in any event the nhl decided to honour one dimensional checkers along with one dimen sional scorers maybe the league should start awarding the doug gil mour award anually to the league s most effective all round player cordially as always rm roger maynard maynard ramsey cs laurentian ca hey what about the roger maynard award for the most annoying fan derrick m jewlal laurel st apt waterloo
