I was still wondering myself, so I emailed Yahoo customer care and asked them.

This was their reply:

Penalty minutes are considered a positive statistic in order to allow positive scoring contributions from a larger number of players. While a penalty does put a team at a temporary disadvantage, a moderate to high penalty minute (PIM) total is often the sign of a tough two-way player.
[/b][/quote]I get the feeling that hockey isn't one of their strong points over at Yahoo. It makes absolutely no sense. [/b][/quote]Yeah that doesn't make any sense at all.


But in that case picking up Todd Bertuzzi may not have been a bad move, yeah he's a -3 so far but he has a high PIM. So that just might offset his negative number.

As odd as that may seem.