Rasmus Ristolainen has a chance to do something in his 12 NHL season that he has not done in his prior 11.

[DickSmehlik]

 

[Filthy Dangles]

Lmao.

Buddy was never even a plus player in the AHL or Finnish league....that's crazy

 

[MOGlLNY]

Bring him home

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

...jinx post...will be a -20 in his final few games...

 

[ManofSteel55]

Bring him home

Home...to Buffalo? He sure got a lot of hate from the Sabres fanbase when he was there the last time. Would the fans welcome him back, or...

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Dude could have been a great golfer.

 

[NVious]

Rasmus Minustolainen

 

[DickSmehlik]

For those keeping score, he is a collective -178 for his career.

Over 12 seasons, that is about an average of -15 a season.

 

[JoeSakic13]

Yeah but he’s unbeatable in the playoffs. Nobody has gotten past him.

 

[NotCommitted]

That's a crazy stat but to be fair mostly that's just playing a lot of minutes in bad teams. It's even more crazy dude has a 16-year professional career and has never played in a team which had a positive goal differential over a season.

 

[Hale The Villain]

Plus and minus is a horrible stat, but in this case it's pretty accurate.

 

[jetsforever]

Thought it was going to be playoffs

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

I'm praying against him

 

[NVious]

That's a crazy stat but to be fair mostly that's just playing a lot of minutes in bad teams. It's even more crazy dude has a 16-year professional career and has never played in a team which had a positive goal differential over a season.

He peaked in his first game, it happens (see Matthews)

 

[hangman013]

Yeah but he’s unbeatable in the playoffs. Nobody has gotten past him.

Can't lose if you don't play. Smart thinking.

 

[Golden_Jet]

I don’t see him making the playoffs this year either.

 

[Avs2022]

Being -21 in just 40 games SM Liiga is just well, interesting.

 

[ismelofhockey]

Rasmus Minustolainen

Really? When Rasminus Ristolainen was right there?

 

[MOGlLNY]

Home...to Buffalo? He sure got a lot of hate from the Sabres fanbase when he was there the last time. Would the fans welcome him back, or...

No it’s a joke

 

[NotCommitted]

Something interesting about all this is Ristolainen probably made more money by playing as a #1D in a bad team than he would've if he had played most of his career in a good team, in a role more suited for him.

 

[DickSmehlik]

It's even more crazy dude has a 16-year professional career and has never played in a team which had a positive goal differential over a season.

That's a crazy stat until you realize he was a big reason why those teams never had a positive goal differential.

 

[Chainshot]

I was thinking this was implying he was actually going to play for the Finns in the WC's.

 

[ponder719]

Thought it was going to be playoffs

Not on the Flyers, it's not.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

He got a -1 since this screenshot, so he's only a +3 now. Slowly but surely getting back to his true form.

 

[Calderon]

scrapped