In my experience, the Center-Ice Faceoff (CIFO) is little more than a placeholder.
Let me explain.
As an assistant coach at the AHL level, one of my responsibilities was putting together a faceoff prescout for each of our opponents:
OZ won/loss
DZ won/loss
NZ won/loss
CIFO won/loss
Out of those scenarios, the CIFO is the lowest-frequency event, occurring only …
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