hatedkid666 Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Jeff Paterson @patersonjeff 42s42 seconds ago#Canucks lead #NHL in face-off percentage: 54.9%. Finished 29th last season 46.7%. Of players who've taken 50+ draws, Henrik is 4th (62.5%) Pretty intresting statistics, what do you think changed these stats, why have they so drastically improved? This shows that we are first in the league, almost 2 percent better then the second place islanders: http://www.nhl.com/stats/team?reportType=season&report=teamsummary&season=20152016&gameType=2&aggregate=0 These are the canucks players stats: http://www.nhl.com/stats/player?reportType=season&report=skatersummary&season=20152016&gameType=2&aggregate=0&teamId=23&pos=SOnly Cracknell and McCann under 54% We don't even have one player in the top 40 in faceoffs taken: http://espn.go.com/nhl/statistics/player/_/stat/faceoffs/sort/totalFaceOffs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73 Percent Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Reason number 749376297 why sutter is better than bonino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Having Sutter and Henrik on the first line to allow each to take their strong side really helped. I hope Vrbata gets his crap together and McCann sticks so we can put that line back together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crackers Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 No Vey and Bonino makes a big difference. We lost Richardson though. I expected us to be a bit better in that department this year, but certainly not first in the league. Granted, it's still early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tas Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 that would be a meaningful stat if the team could do something with the puck once they got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robongo Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 It's funny because I said that the Canucks would be one of the worst teams in faceoffs before last season began and got ridiculed hard on here.It's a nice turnaround though for sure, but Hank will definitely come back down to Earth and be around 50-52%. We'll still be among the better teams though and be a huge improvement on last year, which is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumerman77 Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 I wouldn't read too much into it. It is too early in the season and the sample size is too small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucksnhl Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Henrik was playing with an injured shoulder last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 While there are smaller sample sizes currently, last year we only had one person with more than 100 faceoffs taken who was over 50% (Horvat). Sure Bonino and Vey didn't do well, but neither did Matthias and Henrik was at only 45%. This year, our top 3 centers are above 50% (with Henrik at 62.5% as mentioned).Looking for good signs within that? Henrik is at 73% in the offensive zone, and Cracknell and McCann are at 60% and 50% in the defensive zone. It's a mixed bag around when the score is close or we're ahead/behind.Source:http://www.nhl.com/stats/player?reportType=season&report=faceoffsbyzone&season=20152016&gameType=2&aggregate=0&teamId=23&pos=S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zuongo Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Yeah its still early, but its better than having the 29th ranked FO& after 8 games lol. Why can't we just be happy about something instead of finding the negative in it? These forums... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackcanuck Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 There is a new Face off rule this season, The Defensive Zone Center must declare their stick first on the faceoffwhich is an advantage to the Offensive Zone Center.Last year it was visiting team that had to declare their stick first.Also when Sutter was on the Sedin's wing he took the right side faceoffs which is Henrik's weaker side Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Yeah its still early, but its better than having the 29th ranked FO& after 8 games lol. Why can't we just be happy about something instead of finding the negative in it? These forums...We don't really want CDC to break out in chants of "plan the parade!" just yet, so we're settling for cautiously optimistic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Just need a D-man who can consistently get the puck on net once they win it instead of shooting it right at their shin pads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Did Linden pull a Shanahan and step onto the ice during a practice with his suit on and show the players how it's done? No of course he didn't because he is not an idiot. But he was a pretty good faceoff man in his playing days it was ironic seeing him in charge of a team so bad at faceoffs last year. Good that the organization as a whole improved on faceoffs though, remember when they played San Jose in the playoffs and they kept icing the dam puck with the lead? I never want to see that crap again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalky Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 We don't really want CDC to break out in chants of "plan the parade!" just yet, so we're settling for cautiously optimistic."Plan the parade!, Plan the parade!, Plan the parade!"...it's much more impressive in my office, Timberwolf is cringing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stierlitz Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Henrik was playing with an injured shoulder last year.Yes, and this is confirmation:Farhan Lalji @FarhanLaljiTSN 3h3 hours ago Asked about faceoff improvement, WD says Henrik played with a sore shoulder most of last year. #Canucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Kneel Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 awesome....even at this stage for whatever reasons..due props to all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4thLineGrinder Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 those are some really impressive numbers now if we can just find a way to turn all this puck possession and scoring chances into GOALS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownUndaCanuck Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Pretty overrated stat that doesn't really correlate nicely to wins or playoff success. Henrik has the 4th best faceoff percentage in the NHL, but has 4 points in 8 games. It's great that we're winning possession most of the time but our enhanced STAT and shooting stats are pretty terrible, especially considering we're starting the play with possession the majority of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeNiro Posted October 27, 2015 Share Posted October 27, 2015 Pretty overrated stat that doesn't really correlate nicely to wins or playoff success. Henrik has the 4th best faceoff percentage in the NHL, but has 4 points in 8 games. It's great that we're winning possession most of the time but our enhanced STAT and shooting stats are pretty terrible, especially considering we're starting the play with possession the majority of the time.You've got to gain possession in the offensive zone before you can get shots on net. The best way to do that is to win the draw.Just because they haven't been turning them into chances, doesn't mean winning faceoffs isn't important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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