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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
This is also not true. Last season, for players who played at least 20 games, he ranked 177th in penalties/60. He was 81st in minor penalties, behind Tkachuk, Lucic, Gudbranson, Andersson, and Backlund (same amount of penalties as Valimaki), all while playing 55 games and averaging more time on ice than anyone but Andersson.
If you take the last two years, he's 74th for guys who have played more than 40 over that time (43rd in 2019-20), behind guys like Coleman, Tkachuk, Lucic, Gudbranson, and Bennett.
He's a solid second-pairing defensive defenceman. And the penalty narrative is overblown, he's taken them a lot less as he's gotten older.
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It’s penalty differential FYI, not total penalties. Obviously Lucic is a terrible example with all his majors not hurting the team
Basically when Zadorov is on the ice his poor ability to possess the puck means his team is always defending, and as a result his team (and him sometimes) is taking way more penalties than they are drawing