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Originally Posted by MarkGio
I just looked into this. Last year the Flames had the following face-off takers:
- Monahan, 49.3% for 1830 faceoffs
- Backlund, 48.3% for 875 faceoffs
- Stajan, 50.3% for 602 faceoffs
- Jooris, 48.7% for 567 faceoffs
- Granlund, 36.8% for 524 faceoffs
Let's say for example all these centremen improved by 3%. There would be an increase in the following faceoffs
- Monahan, 55 more faceoffs won
- Backlund, 25 more faceoffs won
- Stajan, 17 more faceoffs won
- Jooris, 17 more faceoffs won
- Granlund, 15 more faceoffs won
That's a total of 129 faceoffs, which is a little more than 1 per game. Not enough to affect the 189 times short handed last year.
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Also now factor in that not every faceoff lost should be considered handing the opposition a chance on a silver plate, and not every faceoff won is a guaranteed dump.
Absolutely negligible.