Patrice Bergeron is one of the best players in the NHL when it comes to winning faceoffs, yet he keeps getting thrown out of them.
A strange Bruins subplot in the 2018 Stanley Cup Playoffs has been Bergeron getting tossed with greater frequency from faceoffs at the stern direction of the linesman. NHL faceoff rules are specific, but simultaneously open to interpretation.
Patrice Bergeron's faceoff form was good enough to take 1,368 faceoffs this season. He has been thrown out of 24 faceoffs this postseason.
— Ty Anderson (@_TyAnderson) May 1, 2018
As a result, it’s been a mystifying situation for fans trying to make sense of what Bergeron – a 32-year-old veteran who has taken more than 15,000 draws in his career – is doing wrong.