Takeaways

[Gary Robinson]

I realize that this is an unofficial statistic, but for the teams out there that do keep track of it, what is considered a takeaway? Is it 1) Simply stripping the ball from the offensive player, 2) Stripping the ball and the defensive team getting possession or 3) Stripping the ball and the player who stripped the ball getting possession?

[onpoint]

As far as I have ever been told a takeaway/steal is #3.

[Catlax]

I believe it is actually 2 or 3. If you strip the ball and your teammate recovers it, you get the takeaway and he gets a ground ball. If you do both, you get both.

[Gregg Pathiakis]

I agree. I believe that just as long as the defensive team picks up the ball, it's a take-away. Assuming, of course, that it doesn't turn into a fight for the ball, it has to be a pretty clean play: ball drops, player picks it up.

[Danny Hogan]

it is #2 which encompasses #3

[jessexy]

you dont win a faceoff until you or your team picks it up. its the same thing.

[Cameron pederson]

I would consider a take away when a defensive player forces the ball to the ground and the his team gains posession as a result. I don't know if you would count a check by the defender playing the ball that causes the offensive player to throw the ball out of bounds a take away? Would a take away also encompass the situation where a defensive player causes a turnover by checking down on his offensive players stick as the ball is being passed to him, which in result causes a turnover? In my book all of these situations would constitute an individual takeaway.

[comatose]

I played on a team that keeped that statistic.

When the defensive player is playing the man with the ball and the ball is dropped from a check (and picked up by the opposing team) or thrown out of bounds by the offensive player because of a check then it results in a takeaway. Anytime the ball changes possession due to a defensive check on the ball carrier (even if it goes out of bounds) it is considered and counted as a takeaway.

If there is no contact made by the defensive player to cause the turnover it is simply not counted as a takeaway - there's no credit given to the "phantom check."