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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Not sure but I think that the base statistics for their analysis is based wholly on position of the shot (available from the NHL game logs)
The main thing that the OP is presenting is that the quality of the scoring chance is based on prior puck movement.
Ovechkin and Laine have tons of high scoring chances from outside of the quality scoring area ( shooting from the left of the left face off dot) because the puck movement.
The corsica data would say the goalie is letting in goals from a bad shooting area when in fact they are making great saves when these shots do not go in.
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That's correct (I think), but I don't think there's any way to get data on puck movement without watching every game though, so it's probably not practical to incorporate that on a league-wide stat.
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Originally Posted by gunnner
The flames low shooting % could quite simply be because of how little the opposing goalies need to move laterally from flames shots. And this is a result of the flames slow transistion, always time for backcheckers to get back and block the cross ice pass.
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The first I heard of Valiquette's Royal Road theory was when it was posted on here to explain why the '14-15 Flames were so much better than possession stats suggested they should be. Under Hartley, the Flames were between 2nd and 12th in the league in shooting percentage each year (7th in his final year). Under Gulutzan, the Flames were 14th then 29th. The team didn't get less talented, so the system must have been at least partially to blame.
Not to turn this into another Peters thread, but hopefully that wasn't the cause of the Hurricanes' low shooting %. They finished 29th, 28th, 20th and 28th in shooting percentage in his 4 years there, though, to be fair, that wasn't much worse than their shooting percentage before he got there (25th).