After seeing some inflated Round One scores, Twitter follower Meeqs posed the following question:
I gave him an off-the-cuff answer about teams activating their defensemen more often (which I had written about), but then I did more digging.
As it turns out, empty net play has also contributed to the inflated scoring totals. Teams are pulling their goalies…
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