The National Hockey League, like most every pro sports league, is a copycat enterprise. Any slight or even perceived advantage will be replicated.
It’s the same dynamic Mike Babcock has used in previous seasons when Auston Matthews and William Nylander are playing on the same line. A few players admittedly weren’t aware of the rule change earlier this month at the NHL Player Media Tour in Chicago. But Kings centre and two-time Selke Trophy winner Anze Kopitar said that the changes are going to have a “big” impact.
Giroux has experienced a similar bump. Since moving to the “wing,” each of his last two seasons has been north of 58 per cent, putting him in the class of the NHL’s elite faceoff winners. His career average prior to the switch was 54.4 per cent. He is also taking roughly half the number of draws he was before.
“If you don’t win the faceoff to start a power play, you can lose almost 30 seconds of power play time,” Couturier said.
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