Face-off circle is doing in Dallas and Philadelphia

Face-offs are key to the success you have in the playoffs, but not always. Detroit is ripping the Dallas Stars appart in the face-off circle, and in is being transformed into goals.

Look at the table for the three games played so far. These are face-offs in all three zones.

% percentage for the series.

Detroit	OFF	DEF	NEUT	TOT	Gametotal	%
Game 1	16	9	10	35	58	60.3
Game 2	13	12	14	39	55	70.9
Game 3	6	8	17	31	54	57.4
	35	29	41	105	167	62.9
	59.3	65.9	64.1

Dallas	OFF	DEF	NEUT	TOT	Gametotal	%
Game 1	10	6	7	23	58	39.7
Game 2	6	4	6	16	55	29.1
Game 3	8	5	10	23	54	42.6
	24	15	23	62	167	37.1
	40.7	34.1	35.9

You can’t expect to win to many games or series with averages like the ones obtained by Dallas.

In the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh series, the guys leading the series are miserable on the face-offs, but the pucks seems to follow them to the net and in.

Pittsburgh	OFF	DEF	NEUT	TOT	Gametotal	%
Game 1	7	9	12	28	54	51.9
Game 2	10	8	13	31	72	43.1
Game 3	5	5	11	21	50	42.0
	22	22	36	80	176	45.5

Philadelphia	OFF	DEF	NEUT	TOT	Gametotal	%
Game 1	8	3	15	26	54	48.1
Game 2	15	13	13	41	72	56.9
Game 3	8	3	18	29	50	58.0
	31	19.0	46.0	96	176	54.5

Winning face-offs don’t mean anything if your not doing anything with it afterwards.Detroit is steamrolling the Stars, and the Flyers are getting steamrolled, as they are not completing the work after the puck drops.

Most likely we will have a Pittsburgh-Detroit Stanley cup final. You can be sure that Detroit will want to continue it’s winning ways in the face-off circle, so Penguins beware, sharpen up your skills as the Wings mean business.