Rangers left wing Ryan Hollweg had an assist yesterday. That puts him in the upper echelon of NHL players. As evidence, here is a comparison of his numbers (0 G, 1 A) and salary ($500,000) with some other well-known NHLers.
- Luongo, VAN: 0 G, 2 A, $6.5 million
- Turco, DAL: 0 G, 2 A, $5.7 million
- Osgood, DET: 0 G, 2 A, $800,000
- Vokoun, FLA: 0 G, 1 A, $5.3 million
- Brodeur, NJ: 0 G, 1 A, $5.2 million
- Nabokov, SJ: 0 G, 1 A, $5 million
- DiPietro, NY: 0 G, 1 A, $4.5 million
- Kiprusoff, CGY: 0 G, 1 A, $3.6 million
- Hasek, DET, 0 G, 1 A, $2.05 million
- Fleury, PIT: 0 G, 1 A, $1.6 million
- Toskala, TOR: 0 G, 1 A, $1.375 million
You see clearly that Hollweg is providing equal, or almost equal, production to all these well-known players for only a fraction of the price.
(Stats from nhl.com, salaries from nhlpa.com)
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November 18, 2007 at 6:29 pm
his goals against average (0.00) is also better than all of those aforementioned players. what a pick up by glenn the savior