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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I'm afraid I'm always unclear about this stat. Last game only Brodie had a takeaway (and a giveaway) and Gio had two giveaways. Surely there were more than that. I recall a bunch of times Flames knocked a Hab d-man off the puck and took it. That's not a takeaway I guess. Is it only a pocket picking?
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As I understand it, takeaways and giveaways, like hits, are counted by an employee of the home team. Therefore, there is considerable variation in how they are counted from one arena to another.
The rule in Montreal appears to be that nobody takes the puck away from Les Glorieux; they occasionally do not choose to maintain possession.
Sort of like how a Rolls-Royce never breaks down, it just fails to proceed.