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Originally Posted by Kipper_3434
Month to month defensive zone starts. Shot % when he's 1 of 10 players on the ice....stats like these are statistically useless and i understand why people use them. I don't see any value whatsoever compared to saying "he looks skilled but thinks slow". The who is everyone involved in the multi-page argument about zone stats....like they actually matter when looking at a single player.
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He starts his shifts in his own zone more than the other dmen. While the stat may “statistically useless”, before we had the fancy stats teams often would throw out their best defensive pair for faceoffs in their own zone. I believe we can assume this practice has continued in the modern fancy stat age. Ergo Miromanov was on the defensive pair that the coaching staff felt was the strongest defensively.