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Originally Posted by ricardodw
High Danger shots are based on position of shot .. not how little defense zone coverage there is on the shot. After the road team scores and takes the lead they shut the game down and no longer need to make plays in the offensive zone.
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Worse coverage means you give up more chances in the High Danger areas - the reason they are called high danger areas is because they are hard areas to get though that throughout time have a much higher chance of ending up in a goal. A shot from the point that doesn't have "coverage" should be an issue for the goalie to save.
This team didn't play a substantially different system at home vs the road even though a lot of people liked to think that. Do you think GG played two different systems? Why was it mostly the same in 16/17 under the same coach with mostly the same skaters outside of goalies? He matched Backlund against teams top lines that season too, and did it at home and the road in both seasons.
Even if what you said is partially true - it doesn't change the fact that the goalies were just worse at home.
So say the team would give up an early goal to go down 1-0 ... that happens. But the problem on home ice is that the goalie wouldn't make the next save so suddenly it's 2-0 or 3-1 against the run of play. That was the problem on home ice last year.