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The NHL's Best (Even-Strength) Shooters, 2005-09
I put together a stats sheet at the beginning of the year looking at individual player shooting. I estimated the expected number of goals that each player should have scored each year based on t...
Teams of the Decade: Shooting and PDO
We've seen in numerous contexts that the key to winning hockey games is outshooting your opponents: in the long-run (like a decade), your shooting percentage will converge to near the league-average, ...
Who Shoots Left?
I'm right-handed and I shoot right, making me an anomaly: most right-handed Canadian hockey players who started playing at a young age shoot left. But in California, where many players picked up...
League Leaders: Wraparounds
What can you say about wraparounds? You just don't see them very often anymore. As a distinct type of shot, they're by far the least common of those tracked by the NHL. And, as it turns ou...
The Five Worst Teams that Outshot their Opponents
R O from Matchsticks and Gasoline wondered what the flip-side of the winning teams who were outshot looked like. That is, which teams outshot their opponents but did poorly either due to poor go...
The Five Best Teams that were Outshot
It's an accepted truism that teams that get outshot tend to have losing records. This has always been true, but it is even truer today given the parity of the NHL. There are certainly exce...
Shooting Percentage by Game State
Yesterday, I discussed how expected shooting percentage (aka shot quality) varies when teams have the lead. Today I want to look at how even-strength shooting characteristics vary both when team...
Leafs Finally Win One
There have been lots of reasons all season to think that the Leafs are a lot better than they've actually played. The fact that no team - not even the expansion Atlanta Thrashers - has been this...
Frequently Asked Questions #6: Shot Distance
This is Part 6 in a many part series of answers to frequently asked questions about hockey analysis. Here are Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5. What's the most important aspect of shoot...
What if? Shooting at 5-on-3 or with the goalie pulled...
I've really come to like the "what if?" shooting analysis. Sunny Mehta put the idea in my head in his guest post on Forward vs Defense shooting percentage over at Irreverent Oiler Fans. Th...
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