Alain Vigneault going for a record with Manny Malhotra
by Hawerchuk on Feb 8, 2012 1:51 PM EST
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PrintAlain Vigneault abhors Manny Malhotra in the offensive zone. But he's been taking it to new heights this season - as you can see from the chart, Vigneault has been steadily reducing Malhotra's offensive zone starts. Since the 10th game of the season, Malhotra has actually been below 10%. Manny was used for ridiculously low numbers of O-zone draws last season already, but at least he was at 23% for the season.
The Canucks actually broke my charts. When I put them together, it never occurred to me that any player could drop below 10% or get above 90% in any category over the course of a season, or even over a significant part of the season. How wrong I was.
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With the success the Canucks have had with this strategy over the past two seasons, do you think this will be something other teams will emulate?
Tortorella’s been slowing doing it, but not nearly to the extreme. He buried Drury when he signed on (went from 57% to 39%), now he’s burying Boyle. Zuke and Stepan were around 65%+ last season, and he’s working on pushing Stepan on that high again.
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by George E. Ays on Feb 8, 2012 2:09 PM EST up reply actions
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