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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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Or they want to allocate his ice-time more to PP including because they have others that can handle PK.