15 Is The Magic Number

[Tagger 2,722]

With just five games remaining in the season and a place in the playoffs already secured, the Calgary Wranglers look set to help a man achieve his lifetime ambition of recording the highest number of PIM’s in one season in the last twenty years. Edwin Encarnacion, the worst hockey player ever to play the game, has to this point recorded an incredible 255 Penalty Minutes, which on its own puts him in the top 20 of most PIM’s in a season. However, he lies just 14 penalty minutes behind James Lefevre’s 269 PIM’s recorded in season 33. If Encarnacion can average 3 penalty minutes over the last five games, he will have recorded the most amount of PIM’s in one season since Patrick Bergqvist’s incredible 289 PIM season from Season 19. While Encarnacion is unlikely to break Bergqvist’s total this season (which would require over 8 penalty minutes per game), Encarnacion will undoubtedly be delighted with his PIM performance this season as he has all but sealed his third PIM Championship. The question lies though as to whether Encarnacion could in fact seal a fourth PIM crown. Encarnacion is currently in the prime of his PIM career and looks set to regress, although hopefully that will actually help rather than hinder his spectacular PIM-ability.