All Things Hockey In The Carolinas

Saturday, January 24, 2009

Rod, please don't make this list

Halfway through the season and ready to watch the All-Star game this weekend I felt it was a good time to bring up our Captain's plus/minus record. Do you think he will break out the 2nd half and redeem himself? Or do you think he will toil at the bottom and add his name to this ugly record? If he does he will join a former Cane rental player (keep reading)

Brindy is currently last in the league with -29. There are only 3 others in the -20 range so he does have some company. I believe he can and will move up the list and not end at the bottom. Especially if his ice time keeps lowering it might not get worse!!

As of 1/24 ==>

Any guess what the worst plus/minus in history was? I took a quick check on the net to see.
http://www.lcshockey.com/feb06/072206.asp

LOWEST SINGLE-SEASON PLUS-MINUS

Year Player, Team +/-
1. 1975 Bill Mikkelson, Washington -82
2. 1975 Greg Joly, Washington -68
3. 1975 Mike Marson, Washington -65
4. 1974 Reggie Leach, California -61
1976 Larry Johnston, Kansas City -61
1981 Dave Babych, Winnipeg -61
7. 1984 Pat Boutette, Pittsburgh -58
8. 1975 Dennis Patterson, Kansas City -57
1978 Brad Maxwell, Minnesota -57
1981 Norm Dupont, Winnipeg -57
1983 Doug Sulliman, Hartford -57

YEAR-BY-YEAR LOWEST PLUS-MINUS

Year Player, Team +/-
1968 Elmer Vasko, Minnesota -36
1969 J.P. Parise, Minnesota -44
1970 Bill McCreary, St. Louis -44
1971 Doug Roberts, California -56
1972 Gil Perreault, Buffalo -40
Real Lemieux, Los Angeles -40
1973 Bill Mikkelson, NY Islanders -54
1974 Reggie Leach, California -61
1975 Bill Mikkelson, Washington -82
1976 Larry Johnston, Kansas City -61
1977 Al Cameron, Detroit -43
1978 Brad Maxwell, Minnesota -57
1979 Rick Green, Washington -45
1980 Steve Sullivan, Winnipeg -45
1981 Dave Babych, Winnipeg -61
1982 Dwight Foster, Colorado -53
1983 Doug Sulliman, Hartford -57
1984 Pat Boutette, Pittsburgh -58
1985 Doug Shedden, Pittsburgh -51
1986 Randy Ladoucer, Detroit -54
1987 Grant Ledyard, Los Angeles -40
1988 Brian MacLellan, Minnesota -44
1989 Tom Fergus, Toronto -38
1990 Bryan Fogarty, Quebec -47
1991 Vincent Damphousse, Toronto -31
1992 Paul Fenton, San Jose -39
1993 Neil Wilkinson, San Jose -50
Rob Zettler, San Jose -50
Doug Zmolek, San Jose -50
1994 Gord Dineen, Ottawa -52
1995 Chris Dahlquist, Ottawa -30
1996 Craig Janney, San Jose -35
1997 Alexandre Daigle, Ottawa -33
1998 Paul Ysebaert, Tampa Bay -43
1999 Darcy Tucker, Tampa Bay -34
2000 Yannick Tremblay, Atlanta -42
2001 Patrice Brisebois, Montreal -31
2002 Tyler Wright, Columbus -40
2003 Wayne Primeau, Pittsburgh -30
2004 Rico Fata, Pittsburgh -46
2006 Mark Recchi, Carolina -36
Lets hope Rod doesn't add his name here.