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There are two things that really pop out at me when I look at the Hurricanes individual players stats.

1) positive giveaway / takeaway differentials for the defensemen - they were all either near even or positive, which is remarkable and really lends to the argument that the Hurricanes were a good possession team.

2) positive and high faceoff win percentages for the centremen - Stall, Ryan, Kruger all over 55% and Rask and Lindholm flirted with 55%. That can't be all just because they acquired good faceoff guys, there is probably a lot coaching of set faceoff plays focusing on puck retrieval as a team off the faceoff. I'm betting a big part of acquiring Lindholm and Ryan is because Peters is big on winning faceoffs and he also wants a couple of guys who can help explain all the faceoff schemes to the other forwards.