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Puck location/Zone time for Game 1: Bruins vs. Penguins

Salutations, Stanley Cup of Chowder! I come in peace to share my findings regarding zone time for game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Due to boredom/free time, I decided to look at how long the puck was in each zone for the game. Also, I compared that to each player's shifts to see where the puck was when a specific player was on the ice.

Methodology
Using the game clock from the CBC feed, I recorded whenever the puck switched zones to measure how long the puck was in the Bruins' zone, the neutral zone, and the Penguins' zone. Due to the impreciseness of my methods, the following numbers are approximate.

Interpreting the numbers
For each player, the numbers are percentages that represent how much of a player's ice time the puck was in a particular zone. For example, for 46% of the time Gregory Campbell was on the ice, the puck was in the Bruins' zone. Also, just looking at Campbell's even strength ice time, the puck was in the Bruins' zone 45% of the time. The 'Team' row describes where the puck was for the entire game, followed by a period-by-period breakdown.

Player Def/TOI (%) Neut/TOI (%) Off/TOI (%) Ev Def/Ev TOI Ev Neut/Ev TOI Ev Off/Ev TOI
CAMPBELL, GREGORY 46 14 40 45 14 40
LUCIC, MILAN 37 16 47 38 18 44
HORTON, NATHAN 37 20 44 39 19 42
SEGUIN, TYLER 33 19 48 34 18 48
PAILLE, DANIEL 41 17 43 41 19 41
FERENCE, ANDREW 38 19 44 35 19 45
THORNTON, SHAWN 37 18 45 37 19 43
KELLY, CHRIS 46 16 38 39 16 44
CHARA, ZDENO 45 15 39 42 18 40
BERGERON, PATRICE 42 19 39 42 23 35
SEIDENBERG, DENNIS 43 19 38 39 22 40
KREJCI, DAVID 41 18 42 40 20 39
KRUG, TOREY 39 19 42 40 19 41
PEVERLEY, RICH 46 17 37 38 18 44
MCQUAID, ADAM 39 17 43 39 17 43
BOYCHUK, JOHNNY 42 18 40 41 18 41
MARCHAND, BRAD 40 19 41 40 19 40
JAGR, JAROMIR 36 17 46 37 19 44
Team 41 17 41 39 19 42
1st period 47 15 38 44 15 40
2nd period 39 17 44 39 20 41
3rd period 38 20 42 36 21 43
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The 3 colored bars represent the length of time the puck spent in each zone. Red represents the defensive zone, gray the neutral zone, and blue the offensive zone. The longer the colored bar, the longer the puck was in that particular zone.

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