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Originally Posted by Finger Cookin
Don't the stats from the initial post suggest Giordano and Hamilton are the best defensemen pairing in the league at generating offense? How are they at shot suppression and goals allowed? I see the GF% tells part of this story, but what about SAT and USAT?
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Zone/Score-Adjusted Shot Suppression (from Corsica):
49.98 shot attempts against per 60 (ranks as 3rd best in League among 500+ 5v5 minute pairings (second place is Washington's Orpik-Schmidt 3rd pair, 1st place is Anaheim's excellent Lindholm-Manson pair), and ranks 1st among 600+ minute 5v5 pairings)
35.83 unblocked shot attempts against per 60 (ranks as 3rd best in League among 500+ 5v5 minute pairings (second place is San jose's Schlemko-Dillon 3rd pair, 1st place is Anaheim's excellent Lindholm-Manson pair), and ranks 1st among 600+ minute 5v5 pairings)
Raw shot suppression numbers by center (from Puckalytics):
W Bennett: 48.99 CA60 / 1.56 GA60
W Monahan: 49.84 CA60 / 1.60 GA60
W Backlund: 48.39 CA60 / 1.17 GA60
W Stajan 46.66 CA60 / 1.47 GA60
In amusing contrast, Russell-Wideman in 2014-15 when we made the playoffs, had 67.30 CA60 (per Puckalytics) and yet thanks to absurdly inflated SV% (that fell apart the next year) posted a respectable 2.24 GA60