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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Nobody is using DZS% as a measure of how good a player is defensively.
But if you get the majority of your starts in the defensive zone, it shows that your coach is not sheltering you from defensive responsibilities. That dog won't hunt.
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If your team is spending a majority of its time in the defensive zone (which the Flames were late in the season) and you have a defenceman seeing 21 minutes a night, you're going to see a inflated DZS% as that 21 minute defenceman needs to get those minutes somehow. It sure wasn't playing shorthanded, where Miromanov saw no ice time. A defenceman sitting on the bench when the team is shorthanded, as far as I am concerned, is being sheltered. Or isn't trusted enough by their coach to kill penalties.