BobRouse
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- Mar 18, 2009
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Was thinking of something....I know the evidence out there doesn't really tell if face offs are important or not but it seems intuitive that they certainly are.
Now....
Last year we were 23rd in the league as a team 48.8%. This with all time face off great Adam Oates as our coach (if he knew D and Goalies you'd think he'd know face offs huh?). Here is the player breakdown of the key face off takers:
Grabovski 54%
Beagle 51.7%
Backstrom 50.5%
Brouwer 51.2%
Fehr 46%
Now ...fast forward to this year. We lose Grabovski and Kuznetsov takes more draws. We are 15th at 50.8%
Kuznetsov 44.1%
Beagle 55.2%
Backstrom 54.8%
Brouwer 60.9%
Fehr 48.3%
You'd think we'd be worse off without Grabo but there has been a dramatic across the board improvement!
What do you guys attribute this to? How we position in the dot? The new face off rules? Oates being a complete moron?
How does every single key faceoff taker (leave out Kuz due to sample size last year) improve so dramatically?
Now....
Last year we were 23rd in the league as a team 48.8%. This with all time face off great Adam Oates as our coach (if he knew D and Goalies you'd think he'd know face offs huh?). Here is the player breakdown of the key face off takers:
Grabovski 54%
Beagle 51.7%
Backstrom 50.5%
Brouwer 51.2%
Fehr 46%
Now ...fast forward to this year. We lose Grabovski and Kuznetsov takes more draws. We are 15th at 50.8%
Kuznetsov 44.1%
Beagle 55.2%
Backstrom 54.8%
Brouwer 60.9%
Fehr 48.3%
You'd think we'd be worse off without Grabo but there has been a dramatic across the board improvement!
What do you guys attribute this to? How we position in the dot? The new face off rules? Oates being a complete moron?
How does every single key faceoff taker (leave out Kuz due to sample size last year) improve so dramatically?