Can someone (an advanced metrics guru) enlighten me on something called "high danger chances".
How are these stats compiled exactly? Are they strictly compiled just from a certain area of the ice? For instance, anything from the slot forward towards the net regardless of circumstance, or are they tabulated based on 'open shots' or 'clear shots'?
I would like to know because of Gulutzan's system employing the use of a 5-man unit. I think that against some teams and in some instances, it is 100% the right approach, but it also has (or at least, seems to) have the drawback of slowing the game down and having the opposing team fully set-up in their own zone.
Now, with the above in mind, are the Flames REALLY getting all those high danger chances, or are most of them contested (blocks, tip-aways, etc)?
A system employed by Hartley and Ruff make use of the quick counter-attack/transition to try and out-number the defence and have them out of position, with the defence joining the cycle and trying to create confusion. Perhaps that system - although probably drawing a lot less high danger chances - perhaps (and I mean PERHAPS) have 'better' high danger chances?
Is this a logical leap, or are high danger chances counted regardless if they are contested or not simply by where the shot (or puck control in a certain area - like a breakaway that never got a shot off) occur.
I do like how the Flames have been playing for the last stretch MORE than I have for a while now, but I still think they often play 'too slow'. I think they dominated against the Stars tonight, and did run into a goalie playing well, but at the same time the counter-attack of the Stars seemed way quicker and more dangerous at times. I really do think that it wasn't all Bishop - it was Bishop and that quick transition that won the game for the Stars (though if the Flames capitalized on the PP - which has been really good lately - they would have likely won the game tonight).
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