So in the bye week we get to see some more stats of a different kind? Are we supposed to decide if a player is good or bad with these stats? Are all players supposed to be in the blue! Honest questions. Is Bryan Rust an elite NHL player? 
What style of play are these players being told to play? Is a dump & chase with heavy forechecking a bad thing? Does that show up on these stats? Again, honest question. Do stretch passes show up on these stats as that would be a positive zone entry only the player doesn't carry the puck out.
Are all players supposed to be doing the same thing as these stats do suggest they should to be blue? Honest question.
- Aussiepenguin
Not being good at zone entries doesn't make you bad on its own, but generating zone entries is always superior to dump and chase. When you carry the puck into the zone, you are ensuring an offensive possession. When you dump it in, you're losing the puck, which greatly diminishes the chance of an offensive possession. Add in that most quality chances in the NHL come in off the rush, and you see why zone entries are so important.
And, no, dumping it in and then retrieving the puck does not count as a controlled zone entry, so that does not show up on the stat.
Stretch passes would be zone exits in almost every circumstance.
I don't know why you think these graphs suggest all players should be doing the same thing. These graphs show who's good and who's bad at zone exits and entries. If you fundamentally believe that all D should be good at generating zone exits and all forwards should be good at generating zone entries because high and hard off the glass and dump ins are essentially turn overs (which, I mean, isn't a terrible philosophy), then yeah I guess these graphs could be showing you good and bad players in black in white, but as always it depends what context you want to add as the data's interpreter.
