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How Vegas Stopped the Bleeding

How Vegas Stopped the Bleeding

Two adjustments paying dividends for VGK

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Jack Han
Jan 04, 2022
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One of the season’s underreported stories is how the Vegas Golden Knights went from worst to first in 5v5 defense.

The extent of that turnaround is illustrated by Micah Blake McCurdy’s HockeyViz model.

In late October, VGK was giving up 36% more expected goals per hour played than league-average, a catastrophically bad mark.

Just five weeks later, VGK was …

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