Back in 1987, the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson, released a song titled, “Bad,” an oxymoron if there ever was one. The flamboyant performer ended each refrain with the provocative query, “Who’s Bad?”
Given the sorry state of our favored hockey team, I thought that would make a swell title for my impromptu look at individual on-ice performances.
Since the aim of any hockey player is to be on the ice when your team scores and not on the ice when scored against, I decided to keep things simple and use goals for and against as the basis for my evaluation.