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Originally Posted by SebC
The difference between an awful faceoff team and an excellent faceoff team is about 6 possessions per game. Not terribly significant. Faceoffs are overrated because they are an easy thing to track.
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When these are face-offs that can potentially change the outcome of the game, ie. last couple minutes, goalie pulled, up by 1, game 7 of the finals, then they become much more significant in my mind. Of course, they're not tracked like that but you'd think that if a team was consistently over 60%, there would be more of those scenarios where they're coming out on top. Of course, the complete opposite happened tonight as Backlund lost both of his last two draws so go figure.