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Habs Wingers Spent Substantially-less Energy Defending in Game 3 Than They Did in Games 1 and 2

By Kicks @Chrisboucher73
This post will focus on how much "time" each Montreal Canadiens player has spent defending in the defensive-zone. Percentage of events spent defending is calculated by dividing the number of events each player engages-in while attempting to remove puck-possession from the opposition in the defensive-zone (blocked shots, blocked passes, stick-checks, body-checks) by the total amount of puck-possession events (offensive and defensive / all 3 zones).
A list of all the events I track can be found here.
A higher-percentage indicates that the player has spent more time defending in the defensive-zone. Expressed differently, the higher the percentage, the more time the opposition has spent with possession in the Habs' zone. The graph compares each player's percentage during the first round series against the Tampa Bay Lightning, with each specific game against the Boston Bruins in round 2.
Game 3 saw Mike Weaver and Alexei Emelin spend more energy defending in the defensive-zone than any other Habs player.
As a team, Montreal defended less in game 2 than they did during game 3. The percentage was also higher than it was during the first round of the playoffs. Defensemen and centres spent more "time" defending in game 3 than they did in game 2, while wingers spent substantially less time defending in game 3.


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