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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Elias Lindholm is this team's Marian Hossa.
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I haven't caught up to the whole thread yet, but wanted to mention something. Chatting with the boys during the game there were a lot of questions around why Lindholm was on the 2nd line. I mentioned that I thought it could be for 2 reasons, face offs and getting a spark for Chucky.
I hadn't really given much thought to my comment before saying it, so I decided to look into it a bit more during the game. Following along on NHL.com the "live" portion of the stats. I saw something interesting. Almost all of Lindholm's faceoffs were in the defensive end. He took the majority of his line's draws. Not only did he take them, he also was 89% in the dot. When I last looked he was something like 9/10 in the dot and almost all in the D end. Backlund was 20% and most of his were neutral zone or offensive. Mony, JG and Chucky were in the offensive zone for most of their draws. The other 2 that took draws in the D zone were Ryan and Janko, who were ~70% in the dot.
There was a lot more going on then just line shuffling. We should really commend the coaching staff on what they did this afternoon. \
Forget Hossa, Lindy can be our Bergeron
ok ok ok, he can be both.