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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I have seen the numbers posted a few times on SN over the past two months, but don't know off hand where to find them online. Anyhow, what has been remarkable about the Flames season is how poor Hiller's SP is on so-called "clean shots"—it is devastatingly bad. So much so that even while he sports a good SP on shots in close, the number of goals he allows from low-percentage scoring is so bad that it has dragged his overall SP to an historically career low of 0.879.
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Not arguing or even discussing but where can you find any goalies sv% on clean shots.
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From the article the in close shots might be clean shots.... the goalie does not have to reset.
The transition shots, that have a really bad sv% for all goalies are shots off of passes where the goalie is forced to reset.
This seems to be intuitive. It would be why d-men take away the pass on a 2 on one and let the goalie deal with the shooter.
It is pretty obvious when you look at the PP. ALL teams are looking to get transition shots on the PP forcing the goalie to reset. ALL defenses are working to stop transition passes.
Are the Flames better or worse at allowing transition shots?
Again from the article it would seem that this information would only be mined from detailed breakdown of game films.