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@ Hawerchuk: I did a table of "expected OZ draws compared to actual OZ draws" for the Thrashers and Kovalchuk's number was closer to the team average than I would have expected. I have NOT looked at this data league wide, but I'm not sure that start-of-shift locations would have a huge bias effect on plus/minus--but it is worth some investigation.
@ Rothstein: I tired to send you an email about draft stuff but I'm not sure it went through on P.P. yesterday.
@ Hawerchuk: I did a table of "expected OZ draws compared to actual OZ draws" for the Thrashers and Kovalchuk's number was closer to the team average than I would have expected. I have NOT looked at this data league wide, but I'm not sure that start-of-shift locations would have a huge bias effect on plus/minus--but it is worth some investigation. @ Rothstein: I tired to send you an email about draft stuff but I'm not sure it went through on P.P. yesterday.