The red line shows each player's puck-possession success-rate in the defensive-zone, while the yellow shows the neutral-zone, and the green displays their puck-possession success-rate in the offensive-zone.
Defensive-zone
No Montreal Canadiens defenseman produced a better defensive-zone puck-possession success-rate against Ottawa than they averaged during the entire season. Expressed differently, this shows that Habs defensemen gave the puck away in the d-zone more often against Ottawa than they averaged against other teams. Defensemen with substantially-lower defensive-zone puck-possession success-rates against Ottawa than they averaged otherwise include PK Subban and Andrei Markov.
Colby Armstrong, David Desharnais and Ryan White were the only Montreal forwards to produce better defensive-zone puck-possession success-rates against Ottawa than they averaged against the rest of the league. Brandon Prust, Tomas Plekanec, Rene Bourque, Brian Gionta, and Brendan Gallagher all produced lower defensive-zone puck-possession success-rates against Ottawa than they did otherwise.
Neutral-zone
No Montreal defenseman produced a substantially-higher neutral-zone puck-possession success-rate against Ottawa than they averaged during the season. Defensemen with substantially-lower neutral-zone puck-possession success-rates against Ottawa include Francis Bouillon, and Tomas Kaberle
Michael Ryder and Travis Moen were the only forwards to produce higher neutral-zone puck-possession success-rates against Ottawa than they averaged over the course of the entire season. Prust, Plekanec, Alex Galchenyuk, Max Pacioretty, Gallagher and Lars Eller were all among the forwards with the lowest neutral-zone puck-possession success-rates against Ottawa.
Offensive-zone
Raphael Diaz was the only Montreal d-man to have produced a better offensive-zone puck-possession success-rate against Ottawa than he averaged during the entire season. Subban and Markov both had offensive-zone puck-possession success-rates against Ottawa that were much lower than their season averages.
Among forwards, only Bourque had an offensive-zone puck-possessions success-rate that was higher than his season average. Ryder, Plekanec, Galchenyuk, and Gionta had the biggest drop-off in games against Ottawa.
vs. Ottawa
Season average
