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Figured this deserved its own discussion. Obviously, The Athletic is an awesome paid service, and you should get your own subscription out of respect for their work. Commencing cutting and pasting.
Taken from: 31 Stats: Leafs Cup chances without William Nylander, Patrik...
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The most striking one is happening in Detroit right now. Sznajder mentions it’s still early and he hasn’t tracked enough games yet so the current results might be noisy, but what he has seen is one of the worst teams he’s tracked in terms of defencemen exiting the zone with control. The average controlled zone exit percentage for defenders last year was around 34-to-35 percent, with the worst team in the league being Buffalo at 29.6 percent and Vancouver at 30.3 percent. Detroit was close at 31 percent.
This year the Red Wings have dropped much further and are at 23.3 percent, meaning if a puck is on a Detroit defender’s stick, the team makes it out of the zone cleanly less than one quarter of the time. To put it in further perspective, the Red Wings failed to exit the zone entirely at the exact same rate.
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Note: when posting links like this be careful not to link way too much of the article. This is a paysite, yes we link Athletic articles and I do as well while imploring others to subscribe, but we cannot have entire aricles and 100s of words of text being posted here, it is against the rules.
-TZE
Taken from: 31 Stats: Leafs Cup chances without William Nylander, Patrik...
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The most striking one is happening in Detroit right now. Sznajder mentions it’s still early and he hasn’t tracked enough games yet so the current results might be noisy, but what he has seen is one of the worst teams he’s tracked in terms of defencemen exiting the zone with control. The average controlled zone exit percentage for defenders last year was around 34-to-35 percent, with the worst team in the league being Buffalo at 29.6 percent and Vancouver at 30.3 percent. Detroit was close at 31 percent.
This year the Red Wings have dropped much further and are at 23.3 percent, meaning if a puck is on a Detroit defender’s stick, the team makes it out of the zone cleanly less than one quarter of the time. To put it in further perspective, the Red Wings failed to exit the zone entirely at the exact same rate.
MOD
Note: when posting links like this be careful not to link way too much of the article. This is a paysite, yes we link Athletic articles and I do as well while imploring others to subscribe, but we cannot have entire aricles and 100s of words of text being posted here, it is against the rules.
-TZE
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