Beagle is ranked fourth in the league in faceoff percentage with 60.7 percent. A good example of that is Kuzy has had maybe a couple games where his faceoffs, whoever he’s matched up that night against, that guy’s getting a little bit of the better of him on the faceoffs, so maybe towards late in the game, I may throw [Beagle] on the wing with that line, so that if there is an icing call or something, I have Beags to go in there, who’s hitting probably in the 60 to 70 percent range in the last four or five games, rather than someone who maybe was having a little bit of a dry spell at 35 or 40 percent. Beagle set a career high in faceoff percentage during the regular season (58.52), which was good for fifth overall in the league among players who took at least 200 draws. Listen at work or while you surf. NHL face-off percentage and face-off win leaders, 2019-20 regular season The goal is simple but the nuances aren't. Jay Beagle is a faceoff specialist and right now he’s being really, really special in the dot.. The Capitals won that night, 4-1, and Beagle finished 80 percent on draws.The play was an example of a way Trotz is utilizing Beagle’s faceoff prowess this season, often putting him on a different line for key draws.“It’s huge,” Beagle said. Jay Beagle wants to win every faceoff. And so, when the coaching staff gives you a lot of trust and puts you out in key situations, I mean, that’s what you live for. It gives you confidence, and you obviously don’t want to let the team down, you don’t want to let them down, you don’t want to let yourself down, so you go out and do it to the best of your ability, and it’s an awesome opportunity. With Jay Beagle hot in the faceoff circle in Buffalo earlier this month, Capitals Coach Barry Trotz deployed him on a line with T.J. Oshie and Nicklas Backstrom. I’ve used at him times, I’ve thrown him on the wing. ... he finished last season with the league's second-best winning percentage at 62.3 - … Every player wants to play in key situations, and so it’s been great.”“Beags has been probably the most consistent guy in the faceoff circle, him and Backy have been probably that since I got here,” Trotz said. ONLINE STREAM. “It’s something that you work your whole career for, and since this coaching staff’s come in, they’ve shown a lot of trust in me.
How a center is doing in the game may then influence if Trotz turns to Beagle for a boost.
“Sometimes, if we’re taking it and I’m on the bench side, and it goes around to the weak side, I’m in no-man’s land anyway, so I come off and the weak-side winger can come on,” Beagle said.The team’s coaches in the video room, Tim Ohashi and Brett Leonhardt, are tracking faceoffs throughout the game, and then they relay that information to the coaches on the bench. To show effective the pending unrestricted free agent has been on the faceoff dot, he ranks fifth among NHL players with at least 1,000 draws since the 2014-15 season (1,687 wins on 2,955 draws, good enough for a 57.1 win percentage). He can win faceoffs on the right and left side. We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests. Review our Never miss a story or breaking news alert! He also finished first in the postseason among players who took at least 150 draws with a 60.1 percent win rate, which was second among players who played in at least five games. Jay Beagle wants to win every faceoff. Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue. He got the puck behind the goal line, backhanded it through two Sabres to get it to Oshie in front of the net, and Oshie roofed it for the Capitals’ first goal of the game. The plan was for Beagle to take the draw, and if the Capitals got full control, then he would immediately change for Marcus Johansson.But after he won the defensive-zone faceoff against the Sabres, the puck went to Oshie in the middle, and with Oshie needing support and Beagle being the closest player to him, he didn’t hop off the ice, skating up the ice instead. “And Beags is a great option.