NHL match Dallas Stars – Florida Panthers on Sunday 8.1. Broadcast on TV2, Areena, app and website from 22:30.
On Sunday night, the Dallas Stars, one of the season’s most positive surprises, and the season’s biggest flop, the Florida Panthers, will meet in the NHL.
The first chain of both teams is led by a Finnish star – on the Florida side Alexander Barkovin Dallas Roope Hintz. The chains they lead are among the NHL’s elite.
The statistics also reveal interesting information about how Barkov has played Matthew Tkachuk with compared to last season Jonathan Huberdeau with. The player trade between Florida and Calgary was the biggest NHL news last summer.
Huberdeau, who had 115 power points (30+85) last season, who had represented the Panthers from the 2012-13 season, and the defender MacKenzie Weegar transferred to the Calgary Flames. Tkachuk, who also broke the 100-point mark (42+62=104), traveled from Calgary to Florida.
Barkov said in the summer that he expected Tkachuk to bring audacity to the team. On the other hand, Huberdeau’s departure caused mixed feelings in the Finnish center.
– It’s a bit strange when you go to the hall, and there aren’t any players with whom you’ve played for so long. Yes, it sparkles.
Last season, Florida won the entire NHL regular season for the first time in its history and scored an average of 4.14 goals per game. The last time Pittsburgh was capable of a similar goal fraud was 1995–96.
However, in the second round of the playoffs, the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Panthers 4–0. In the summer, the club released the acting head coach by Andrew Brunette and your salary by Paul Mauriceso the changes did not remain in the large player trade.
The fall season of 2022 was extremely painful for Florida after the upheavals. Before this weekend’s Detroit and Dallas games, it had sunk from last to last in its division. In terms of playoff spots, Florida is already in a big hurry.
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Florida has also had bad luck
In the PDO statistic, the team’s shooting percentage and save percentage are added up on a five-on-five basis. Before the weekend, Florida’s PDO was 99.1 and ranked only 25th in the 32-team NHL. Florida can therefore be said to have been an unlucky team as well.
Florida’s inefficiency or “bad luck” is also told by how the team has managed its matches. Florida’s Corsi reading of 54.06 was fourth best in the NHL before the weekend. Corsi measures game control based on shots.
Before the weekend, Florida had scored 17 goals less than the team expected to score, including special situations. It was the third lowest quote of the series.
Stat that Tkachuk is a better fit for Barkov than Huberdeau
So how has Barkov played since Huberdeau was replaced by Tkachuk? First, Barkov missed ten games during the fall of 2022 due to injuries. In any case, Urheilu’s expert Ismo Lehkonen listed Barkov as the Finnish disappointment of the early season during the Christmas break.
– Barkov’s minutes must be a plus sign in Florida, especially now that things are tight with the playoff spot. Autumn was not particularly good by his standards. With that salary bag, it is expected that he will lead the team to the playoffs night after night. Now it feels like the leadership in Florida is built only around Tkachuk.
By the turn of the year, Tkachuk had scored 17+26=43 in 34 games, Barkov 9+18=27 in 27 games.
Barkov’s scoring average is exactly one, while it was 1.11 at the same stage last season. During the fall of 2022, Barkov scored an average of 0.33 goals per match, while the number a year earlier was 0.61.
Barkov and Tkachuk know how to play together. When both are on the ice, Florida has dominated 5-on-5 scoring chances by over 62.3 percent. Florida’s reading when neither is on the ice has been 51.46.
On the other hand, Tkachuk’s reading without Barkov is 56.8, while Barkov’s reading without Tkachuk is only 51.2.
Last season, the corresponding xGF% of Barkov and Huberdeau was 56.81, which is practically the same as the team without the duo.
Last season, Florida had a 52 percent shot at dangerous goal percentage when both Barkov and Huberdeau were on the ice. Barkov did clearly better in this statistic without Huberdeau.
Instead, this season, when Barkov and Tkachuk have both been on the ice, Florida has controlled 60.2 percent of dangerous scoring opportunities.
The most anticipated goal-creating chain
When looking at the chains that have played at least a hundred minutes together this season, Florida’s field Tkachuk – Barkov – Carter Verhaeghe is number one in the entire NHL in the number of goals expected per 60 minutes. Vitja’s reading before the weekend was 4.92.
When you also take into account the goal expectation given to the opponent, the aforementioned Florida joker is the tenth best in the NHL with a reading of 61.6 percent. Kentällinen has therefore dominated his game against his opponents roughly in the ratio of 61–39, when measuring expected goals.
However, apart from Barkov’s injuries, the trio in question has not always played together. For example, in the Montreal win, when Barkov scored a hat trick, Tkachuk played on the second court and on the first court Barkov played alongside Verhaeghe and who moved from Ottawa after last season Colin White.
Tkachuk – Barkov – Verhaeghe had been seen on the ice for 133 minutes at the time of writing this, when, for example, Boston’s Jake DeBrusk – Patrice Bergeron – Brad Marchand had played together for 225 minutes. Boston’s top midfielder is second in the statistics measuring the goal expectancy ratio with a reading of 66.3 percent.
In this statistic, what is the best streak of the NHL season among those who played at least one hundred minutes? Reading 69.4 percent of New Jersey Jesper Bratt – Jack Hughes – Erik Haula (total 164 minutes).
Dallas’ “super chain” received the support of the entire team this season
Among the NHL chains in the current season, the most minutes together has been played by Dallas’ number one player against Florida on Sunday Jason Robertson – Roope Hintz – Joe Pavelski.
Before the weekend, Dallas’ first point guard was ranked 16th (60.2 percent) in the statistics measuring the ratio of goal posts.
Even Dallas’ first field, named “SuperLine”, was merged in the spring of 2021. Dallas was still piloted at that time Rick Bowness had previously aimed for four even pitches, notes The Athletic (you are moving to another service). However, Bowness decided to finally throw the three best scorers of his team at that moment in the same chain.
The 38-year-old Pavelski, who represented the San Jose Sharks and from the 2019–20 season Dallas in the NHL, is a strong fighter and, above all, brilliant and skilled in front of the goal. This season, the American striker has scored 12+26=38 in 40 games.
The Filipino-American Robertson, 23, who recently broke into the NHL’s hottest scorers this season, is fifth in goals and third in points with 26+29=55.
26-year-old Hintz’s powers are 19+25=44. “SuperLinea” has been praised, among other things, for its functional division of labor and teamwork. It could perhaps be summed up that the energetic and strong skater, Hintz, is the engine of the trio. Pavelski is positioned correctly and drives in the corners and in front of the goal. Robertson is first and foremost a goal scorer.
Pavelski’s current contract covers this season. In the fall, Hintz signed an eight-year, $8.45 million contract extension starting next season through the 2030-31 season. Before the start of the season, Robertson signed a four-year contract worth $7.75 million annually.
Last season, Dallas relied too much on its first team. The ratios of other field goal scorers dropped below 50 percent with five against five.
This season, Dallas has rolled again a solid four chain game of the head coach who arrived from Vegas by Peter DeBoer under. Robertson has logged the most playing time among Dallas forwards, averaging 18.36 per match. Hintz has played an average of 17:25. For example, in Florida, Barkov and Tkachuk play more than 20 minutes per game.
Before the weekend, Dallas led the Central Division and had scored the third most goals in the entire NHL.
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NHL match Dallas Stars – Florida Panthers on Sunday 8.1. Broadcast on TV2, Areena, app and website from 22:30.