How to Figure out a Hockey Player's Plus/Minus State
There are plenty of statistics used in hockey to show how a player performed in a certain game or timespan. Plus/minus is one of those stats. A player with a high plus/minus rating is seen as a better defensive player than one who has a lower or even minus plus/minus rating. This can be a difficult stat to understand at first but once you know what it is it's rather simple. Here is how to figure out a hockey player's plus/minus state.
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How to Figure Out a Hockey Player's Plus/Minus State
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Every time a player is on the ice when his team scores a goal, while at even strength (five on five, four on four or three on three) or shorthanded (one- or two-man disadvantage), give that player a plus one. For this example, we'll say that the player was on the ice for two even-strength goals and one short-handed goal. This would be a total of plus three.
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Know every time the player is on the ice when his team gives up a goal, while even strength or on the power play (one- or two-nan advantage), give that player a minus one. We'll say that the same player from above was on the ice when his team gave up one goal while on the power play, meaning a minus one rating.
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Don't count the times that the player's team scored when it is on the power play. Those goals don' impact a plus/minus rating.
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Do the math to figure out the player's plus/minus rating. For the player above, you would take the total from Step 3 and add that number from the total in Step 1. In other words, the equation would read “(+3 + (-1),” giving the player a plus/minus rating of plus two overall for that game.
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