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Originally Posted by BACKCHECK!!!
Backlund has taken 931 faceoffs this season.
He would need 466 wins to break even.
He has 442 wins.
This means he is underwater by a total of 24 faceoffs over 67 games.
I just want to be clear that the people who are talking about Backlund's faceoff performance as if it's a major factor on the ice are talking about him losing a single extra faceoff about once every 3 games or so.
one faceoff every 3 games is a complete non-issue.
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Great post. Faceoffs are the most overrated stat this side of +/-
I'm 99.9% concerned with how a player does winning FOs in the defensive zone at clutch times, not really too concerned about the rest as I feel it balances out in the end. However, you don't really want a guy getting killed on defensive zone faceoffs on the regular, or at key times. I'm not really sure how Backlund does in these situations but just by memory he seems okay. Too lazy to look up the stats on it though haha.