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The amazing evolution of Nick Suzuki

Nick Suzuki's Olympic dream formed watching idol Crosby score golden goal Like most Canadians his age, Nick Suzuki grew up idolizing and modelling his game after Sidney Crosby. Now, breathing the same Olympic air as his hero, it all seems to have paid off. Eric Engels catc...

Thanks to Amanda, Rob and Nick Suzuki for pulling back the curtain on Nick’s journey to the Olympics. 🇨🇦 🍁 👇🏻

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@dobberhockey.bsky.social your AMAZING player usage chart should read OZ faceoff % instead of OZ start % (or you might want to modify the chart to include OZ start % instead, might be more accurate if you want to take d-zone faceoffs as a result of icing out of the equation...)

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

made me realized this chart is showing offensive zone *faceoffs* start % and not offensive zone start %. Ovechkin had no d-zone start this season, so the % should be 100%.

Therefore the chart should read OZ faceoff %, not OZ start %

deployment geek moment 🤓

Ovechkin 😅

MTL Player Usage Chart after 57 games:
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This guy is not on team USA
Amazing improvement on defensive impact vs last season
Good news for team Canada, I guess

Avec 5,58 buts sauvés, Samuel Montembeault vient de réaliser la meilleure performance d'un gardien du Canadien cette saison sur le plan statistique. Jacob Fowler avait jusque-là connu le meilleur départ (4,72 buts sauvés le 20 décembre à Pittsburgh).

Source: @naturalstattrick.com

I’ll add that NHL players can be scratched or disciplined for something as simple as being late to a team meeting, so the idea that Danault would go rogue in OT is highly unlikely. That’s not something professional NHL players do without facing real consequences.

Suggesting Danault ignored MSL’s instructions makes little sense imo. Whatever his feelings about his role over the years, he did what he was asked to do on the ice. Claiming otherwise is a stretch. Danault’s career was built on coaches trusting him so he wouldn’t jeopardize that.

When you listen to MSL during media availability, it’s clear he’s very deliberate about what players are supposed to do after a faceoff, win or lose. It’s far more likely Danault was instructed to change if he won the draw, or stay and help regain possession if he lost it.

Calling Danault "selfish" and claiming he "refused to accept his role" is another unsubstantiated claim by Brian Wilde. It’s extremely unlikely Danault stayed on the ice against MSL’s instructions. As a defensive specialist he’s one of the best-suited player to regain possession after a lost faceoff

Stu's Slapshots: Wolf head hat a prized possession for Canadiens Habs goalie Jakub Dobes is looking forward to having some fun with new goalie coach Marco Marciano.

My weekly Stu's Slapshots notebook including story behind #Habs wolf head hat, Jakub Dobes's close relationship with new goalie coach Marco Marciano and the goalie's TV timeout routine and how life is very good these days for Mike Matheson and his family: montrealgazette.com/sports/hocke...

1️⃣Bolduc is not facing lesser competition since joining the Evans line. Since January 17, Bolduc played against elite competition 43.5% of the time as per puckiq.

2️⃣Find it annoying that people call them the 4th line when they are officially listed as the 3rd line since Dach joined them.

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I love the retro graphic!!!!!!

Artturi Lehkonen pregame RDS interview wearing the Québec Nordiques jersey

Very interesting. I’m an advanced-stats addict, but for years I’ve been yelling into the void that these models don’t account enough for the difference in difficulty between D-zone faceoffs and on-the-fly starts on the PK.

Does it really make sense that Cirelli appears as an awful PKer?

On The Ben Chiarot Extension And Missing Context Yesterday, the Detroit Red Wings announced they had signed defenseman Ben Chiarot to a three-year extension with a $3.85 million average annual value (3.7% cap hit percentage).

On the Ben Chiarot contract and missing context

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C'est arrivé l'année passé aussi quand Evans a marqué le but gagnant contre TB (21 janvier 2025), 'Heaven' est sa chanson Karaoke.

Since 2022-23, Jake Evans leads the team with 6 4v4 points

In terms of production rate, that puts him somewhere between Pastrnak and McDavid

(this isn't serious, small sample size and all, but kinda fun - for me anyway 😅)

No and he had a few 1st stars over the years.

Of all the players this season that took over 100 SH faceoffs, Evans ranks 3rd with 57.6% (for comparison, Danault is at 46.8% this season - SH faceoffs are harder to win).

Jake Evans since coming back from injury:
🔸xGF% 66.45 (2nd)
🔸59.1% faceoffs (1st)
🔸2nd most d-zone start %
🔸2nd lowest offensive zone start
🔸2nd lowest xGA/60 (1.36) while playing 42% of his 5v5 TOI against elite competition

But yeah, he's now trash because of one bad play on the PK against Boston.

So far this season Veleno-Evans played 100 minutes together with xGA/60 of 1.63.

Pleasantly surprised, this was not the shut-down duo I was expecting.

The Veleno–Evans–Bolduc line played 26 minutes so far, facing 45% elite competition (same as the Suzuki line) while posting a 1.78 xGA/60 and a 60.5% xGF%, while often starting in the d-zone.

The sample size is still very small, but those are elite defensive results against difficult competition.