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Originally Posted by Bingo
The one thing you can't take away from either Giordano or Hamilton is the suppression and counting stats. We can argue who is driving who, but the bottom line is a lot of minutes with success.
You can't just put any old player there and have that happen.
Hamilton has played six years, and for four of the six he's had one of Chara or Giordano as his partner which says two things; 1) he's had some help 2) he's been good enough to play with the best and/or is the best
All told Giordano for 2435 minutes and Chara for 1593 for a total of 4029. The other partners with 50 or more minutes total 2653 minutes with Seidenberg and Russell being the most frequent partners.
His CF% with the big two is 56.8%, with others 51.3%
The kid can play.
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Situational suppression?
The Flames were playing from behind a lot more than say any playoff team. Teams that were up on the Flames would not be that concerned with generating shots when they were statistically on their way to winning the game.
With the Flames trailing by a goal the other team would be focusing an checking Hamilton/Gio rather than generating shots. A lot more of gaining the zone and making sure the puck got in deep.
Simple fact is that trailing team generate a lot more shots than than they do with a lead.