The top-five worst defensive forwards in the NHL

Gone are the days of judging players by the most useless stat in the game, plus/minus.

Thanks to analytics, we can confidently see which NHL players are terrible defensively. The stat that show that is Expected Goals Percentage (xG%).

According to @datadrivenhockey on Instagram, here are the top-five worse defensive forwards in the league.

For reference: is a stat where we use shot quality to determine which team is expected to score more goals when a certain player is on the ice by looking at the difference between expected goals for (xGF) and expected goals against (xGA).

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