I think we gave up quite early in the search for the worst forward in the National Hockey League. mc79hockey has a post up this week talking about sub-40 players:
If you keep your eye on the Corsi numbers, you notice that Lennart Petrell is posting a spectacularly bad number – his Corsi% is currently 32%. Last year, he was at 39.6%. This got me interested in something: what happens to sub-40% Corsi guys? Looking at seasons of 300 minutes or more, there are 29 of these guys in the BTN era, which started in 2007-08.
17 of these guys are no longer active in the NHL. For eight of them (Jeff Cowan, Jim Dowd, Jeff Giuliano, Byron Ritchie, Scott Thornton, Dan Hinote, Todd Marchant and Jon Sim), a sub 40% Corsi season was the end of the line.
Anyhow, I don’t want to quote the whole post, but Tyler has some interesting facts about what happened to those sub-40 players like Dowd and Hinote, and our favourite, Ryan Johnson, who played a grand total of 48 regular season and playoff games after Don Cherry assured us Johnson was a player that every coach would want on his team.
