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6 Comments (3 conversations)
Ella Carlson
Great piece, AJ! So ready for playoff hockey.
AJ Haefele
AuthorThank you! Nothing beats playoff hockey!
abster
Still can’t understand the pics, but loved the article!
AJ Haefele
AuthorThe ones with all the blobs are heat maps! Dark red means a lot of shots from those spots, dark blue means no shots from those spots. Positive numbers on offense = good. Negative numbers on defense = good. Numbers are relative to league average.
Hope that helps in the future 😀
RockD
I think I prefer Drouin and Val to start out with Nate but either way it’s a good looking top 6. Having both Landy and Val for a full series really changes the dynamic of the team’s net front presence. My lasting impression of the season will be watching Lehkie get the tip on the puck mid-flight while Logan Stanley is cross-checking him out to the face-off dot.
AJ Haefele
AuthorI went through the minutes distribution to see if there was a great combination and a truly bad combination and the only one that stood out was the Lehkonen-MacKinnon-Necas line, which left the second line as a sort of “leftovers” line. There were a bunch of combinations that played between 20-50 minutes together with mixed results, so I just made it easier on myself and went with a known quantity.
Knowing Bednar, we will see plenty of combinations until one finds traction.