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Stats: Dan Girardi’s Hits And Blocked Shots Totals

by Adam Rotter on July 6th, 2010 at 2:35 pm

Yesterday it was announced that Dan Girardi filed for arbitration, but more importantly, was seeking a potential four-year deal that would pay him $3 million per season.

Since Girardi has come to the Rangers in the middle of the 2006-07 season, his hit totals have been:

2006-07: 36 hits in 34 games, 8th among Rangers defensemen

2007-08: 179 in 82 games, 2nd among Rangers defensemen

2008-09- 207 hits in 82 games, 1st among Rangers defensemen

2009-10: 178 hits in 82 games, tied for 1st among Rangers defensemen

His blocked shots numbers during that time were:

2006-07: 41 in 34 games, 8th among Rangers defensemen. (Marek Malik blocked a TON of shots)

2007-08: 123 in 82 games, 2nd among Rangers defensemen

2008-09: 82 in 82 games, 4th among Rangers defensemen, 17 fewer than Wade Redden

2009-10: 180 blocked shots, 1st on the Rangers

This past season Girardi ranked 12th in hits and 6th in blocked shots among defensemen. He was fourth amongst defensemen in hits in 2007.

Here is his hockey fights page and after the jump is a classic Girardi picture.
  • jqstave

    Awesome pic. I think we need to keep Girardi.

    Don’t worry all; Girardi likely won’t make it to arbitration. Filing for arbitration is just a necessary evil that a player and agent must do just in case parties cannot come to mutual terms. Most players do not make it to arbitration even though they file for it. I’m hoping that will be the case here.

    Arbitration is the absolute last case scenario and I’ll be a little worried if it does come to that. First of all there’s Zherdev and the Rangers walked on his arbitration award last years, so there’s some worrying precedence. Second, arbitration is terrible, terrible, terrible for player/team relations. Players/teams sit down in front of the arbitrator and they players talk about how the teams are trying to dick him when it comes to his salary and the teams talk about how the player is not worth the money he is asking for. Basically the team tries to think of all the reasons the players doesn’t deserve the money he’s asking for and tells the arbitrator (in front of the player) why he (the player) sucks.

    As for me, I’m in the “Keep Girardi” camp. I think he’s a solid player and defender, I think he’s earned his time, and I think he deserves a raise. I 100% raise is hard to swallow and I think his raise will likely be in the area of $2.4 – $2.7. If he does end up going to arbitration I think it will be beacue we also have Staal to deal with and that made it more difficult.

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