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Originally Posted by cannon7
If your team is spending a majority of its time in the defensive zone (which the Flames were late in the season) and you have a defenceman seeing 21 minutes a night, you're going to see a inflated DZS% as that 21 minute defenceman needs to get those minutes somehow. It sure wasn't playing shorthanded, where Miromanov saw no ice time. A defenceman sitting on the bench when the team is shorthanded, as far as I am concerned, is being sheltered. Or isn't trusted enough by their coach to kill penalties.
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Sheltered is a five on five deployment measure by a coaching staff.
Who you play against.
Where you start your shifts.
A player can be a solid five on five player but not play much PK due to style or other players more suited on the roster.
He isn't sheltered at all.
But once again I'm not saying he's a free and clear top 4 defenseman, he likely is not, but there just isn't anything in his small sample size that says he was sheltered or bad defensively.