[DeluxeMoustache]

There are a few random thoughts that have come to mind

- For shots where a goalie is set, they may miss or allow a perfect shot. Statistically this is expected to happen about once every twenty shots. So when you see a goalie beat cleanly, not every time is it ‘oh, he’s got to have that’

- when we were watching this year and people were saying saying too many shots were coming from the outside, people brought up the heat maps of shot location. Heat maps of shot location certainly reflect the location of the shot but not the context.

- Hartley’s emphasis on quick transition and activating the D tries to create an outnumbered situation, 4 on 3 if the opposing wingers are caught deep, which tries to create time in the O zone where there is space available for east-west movement

- moving as a 5 man unit, you have to try to create outnumbered situations in a more contained area

- Valiquette doesn’t account for 100 percent of goals in these 7 categories, but does put the 76 percent of goals scored on what he calls green shots into those 7 buckets. It is great to observe and to incorporate the knowledge in to a strategy, but it isn’t, as far as I can see, ready to be used predictively (also of course due to what data is actually tracked and how it can be translated in to pre shot situations)