Yurov is a rookie so take that with a grain of salt. If you look at the best faceoff centers they are vets. You learn more on player’s tendencies as you play. As well that’s why the Wild are targeting a high pct faceoff center in the trade market.
TheSkeletones
Yurov is a rookie my dude, and 22 at that.
Coal_train20
During a game at the Olympics the US won something ridiculous like 10 faceoffs in a row and I joked with my buddies I didn’t know that was allowed in hockey. It’s been an issue for as long as I can remember.
Smokey_02
I know this is to show how bad the Wild are at it, but damn if the Sabres aren’t at another level entirely. Wow!
Shiny_Mew76
Young centermen usually aren’t good at faceoffs. I’m pretty sure one of the older players said that the art of the faceoff is learning just how much you can get away with without being kicked out, it’s very much an experience thing and the older players typically aren’t better at faceoffs barring a few exceptions.
WideGap6125
Its because we don’t give Matt Bc1dy run
_unsourced
Face-off win rate has to be the least impactful stat that takes up the most amount of talk.
This is your reminder that, overall, face-off win percentage doesn’t impact games. It can matter for individual circumstances, but they basically all wash out over the course of a season
Paladad
I think we’re bad at faceoffs
sambes06
EK no good at FOs
MedicineInteresting6
Ek lost 19 faceoffs on Thursday.
HerbalAndy
Hey look at that, the back to back Stanley cup champions still sitting at one of the worst face off teams for the past several years.
Winning face offs would of course be better than not winning face offs, but I’m telling you, you can be very lousy at face offs and still be an incredible team.
wildskater96
Players with 20+ games & 100+ FOs & above 50% FO %
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Yurov is a rookie so take that with a grain of salt. If you look at the best faceoff centers they are vets. You learn more on player’s tendencies as you play. As well that’s why the Wild are targeting a high pct faceoff center in the trade market.
Yurov is a rookie my dude, and 22 at that.
During a game at the Olympics the US won something ridiculous like 10 faceoffs in a row and I joked with my buddies I didn’t know that was allowed in hockey. It’s been an issue for as long as I can remember.
I know this is to show how bad the Wild are at it, but damn if the Sabres aren’t at another level entirely. Wow!
Young centermen usually aren’t good at faceoffs. I’m pretty sure one of the older players said that the art of the faceoff is learning just how much you can get away with without being kicked out, it’s very much an experience thing and the older players typically aren’t better at faceoffs barring a few exceptions.
Its because we don’t give Matt Bc1dy run
Face-off win rate has to be the least impactful stat that takes up the most amount of talk.
This is your reminder that, overall, face-off win percentage doesn’t impact games. It can matter for individual circumstances, but they basically all wash out over the course of a season
I think we’re bad at faceoffs
EK no good at FOs
Ek lost 19 faceoffs on Thursday.
Hey look at that, the back to back Stanley cup champions still sitting at one of the worst face off teams for the past several years.
Winning face offs would of course be better than not winning face offs, but I’m telling you, you can be very lousy at face offs and still be an incredible team.
Players with 20+ games & 100+ FOs & above 50% FO %
Konopka 63%
Hanzal 57%
Stoll 56%
Peters 55%
Wellman 54%
Moore 54%
Hendricks 53%
Koivu 53%
Cullen 53%
Chouinard 53%
Bonino 52%
Sturm 52%
Belanger 52%
Christensen 52%
Robitaille 51%
Fehr 51%
Kolanos 51%
Madden 51%
Galchenyuk 50%
Dowd 50%
Staal 50%
Ebbett 50%
Close but no cigar
Granlund 49%
Gaudreau 49%
White 49%
Brodziak 49%
Steel 49%
Ek 47%
Walz 47%
Ronning 47%
Hendrickson 46%
Rask 46%
Schroeder 46%
Coyle 46%
Rossi 46%
Tldr our centers suck at foceoffs besides the odd center here and there