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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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Except the actual stats don’t show a team starting more in the defensive zone than usual down the stretch, they show a team that stayed around average overall, with Miromanov and Weegar’s defensive zone starts increasing over the last 20 games while everyone else’s decreased.
March was statistically their second lowest defensive zone starts over the course of the season, while April right in the middle. January and October were the two highest.
So, none of what you’re talking about is actually based on anything real, as usual.