Face offs: My perception or reality?

[OpIv37]

Looking at the numbers, the Sabres have been decent on face-offs lately.

However, it seems to me that the Sabres always LOSE the important face offs. They win the face-off outside the blue line on an offsides, but they lose the face-off after an icing penalty and get trapped in the defensive zone. They'll win a center ice face off after a period or a goal, but they'll lose the first face off of a penalty (regardless of whether it's a PK or a PP).

Unfortunately, there are no stats on this- there's no way to prove it without re-watching games, and even then there's some subjectivity to what counts as an "important face-off." But has anyone else noticed this, or am I just biased?

[BlackMetalNinja]

Re: Face offs: My perception or reality?

I think you are biased. I pay attention to these sort of things too and I would say the numbers are fairly consistent with the overall numbers. Again, subject to what we each think is "important".