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Originally Posted by Bingo
Sure offensive zone face off starts as a percentage.
Takes out changing on the fly and points directly to deployment by starting the player on a defensive zone face off.
Miromanov was only above Hanley since the trade deadline for offensive zone face off starts. If you want to shelter a player you don't start them in their own zone for a face off if you have the option.
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Ok, so more zone start percentages...
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Originally Posted by Bingo
But even putting that aside ... you don't play a player with your best defenseman if you want to shelter him as that best defenseman is doing all the heavy lifting.
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That is sheltering. You don't put a guy with your worst defenceman to shelter him, do you?
Guess we're working with entirely different definitions of sheltering...
Before he was traded, Tanev was the guy the Flames played guys with to shelter them, cover for mistakes, etc. Not sure how you can claim that this doesn't work long term, but will happily accept any statistics to support that assertion.