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Originally Posted by Cheese
Here is a good article from HockeyBuzz on Sonny.
https://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog/Trev...ano/297/118518
Deployment
Sonny’s career year offensively may have been helped a long a bit by Ducks head coach Dallas Eakins.
A zone start pertains to where the puck is when a player starts their shift.
Milano’s Deployment
Offensive Zone Starts: 252
Neutral Zone Starts: 157
Defensive Zone Starts: 52
Offensive Zone Faceoffs: 410 (128 of them on the powerplay)
Neutral Zone Faceoffs: 231
Defensive Zone Faceoffs: 126
Whether there is room on the Flames in terms of cap – he’s not getting gifted deployment like this under Darryl Sutter. |
Well the PP stuff is probably true but you can clearly give guys offensive zone starts if you want. Its not like Sutter doesn't do that.
Last year it was the 4th line and 3rd defense pair who got sheltered in that way while the Backlund line and Tanev/Kylington were given more defensive zone starts.