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Originally Posted by Robbob
with the addition of the new tracking system I hope they can extrapolate on the quality of shots. In the first Oilers game sure they got 40 shots on us but only around 10-15 came from quality areas. The facts are NHL goaltenders will stop pucks all day driving up their save % if they face those shots from the outside.
In a perfect world there would be some sort of stat or metric for shots/saves within a defined area.
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My read of the shot quality arguments are that they tend to come out in the wash at least over a season long sample. There's very little statistical difference between total shots and shot quality.