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Originally Posted by neo45
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
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Lucic is a terrible example? Lucic and Zadorov had the same number of minor penalties last year (13) while Lucic had a -0.63/60 penalty differential and Zadorov had a better -0.40/60 penalty differential.
If it's penalty differential you care about, for guys who played 20 games last year Zadorov ranks 118th for all players and 73rd for defensemen.
If it's possession you want to talk about, Zadorov has the highest On-Ice GF% (51.6) on the Blackhawks with the lowest offensive zone start % (38.6). No Flames defensemen started less time in the OZ and only Gio and Tanev were on the ice for more GF.
So, sorry, none of what you're saying is based on fact, regardless of how you shift the goalposts.
(EDIT: and to anticipate talk about goal differential, he was even in EV GD, which was tops on the Blackhawks (everyone else was minus) and would have been good enough for 3rd on the Flames (one again behind Gio and Tanev))