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Originally Posted by Ashasx
But it doesn't work like that either. If you assume that the best faceoff team will win 3 more faceoffs per game than the Flames, they won't all occur on the PK.
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I don't know about the PK, but just from watching the team, I'd say one of our biggest issues on the PP is our inability to win a face off. We seem to lose the draws almost every time, as Hartley said, it kills about 30 secs (or 25% of our PP right off the bat) and then our team struggles to gain the zone again.
I would love to see the stats and have no idea how to pull them, but I think your presumption that a teams overall face off % holds on special teams might be wrong. Reason being, if the Flames centers are weak at face offs (which I believe they are), on special teams they are likely up against the other teams top draw men every time, versus getting any face offs against their weaker draw men in the rest of the game that allows the face off % to go up to 45% or whatever it is.
Anyway, could be wrong, but that would be my thought. I never really thought about it on the PK before, but I know just from watching one of the things I think is the biggest issue with our PP is our inability to win face offs.