[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

I crunched some numbers, and like I suspected shot totals are up by a MASSIVE margin this season—for whatever reason. Through the first 51 games last year there were 23 teams who tallied +35 SOG (22.5%), and 6 games in which that total crested 40 (5.8%). But this year so far through 50 games, teams have fired +35 SOG 43 times (43% = +20.5%), and 23(!) times that number has been over 40 (23% = +17.2%). Last year there were a total of 5 games in which one team managed +50 SOG, and just a mere week into the season that has already happened once.

While the Flames have surrendered too high a number of SOG in three of their first four games, this is less of a concern given the current league-wide trend.

I heard GG on the radio and he was saying that the league has changed the criteria for "shots on goal". If the puck has any chance of going in it is consider a shot, the example was the puck coming in and the goalie playing it with his stick. Previously these would not be shots, not they are because is the goalie wasn't there the puck could have gone in.