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Originally Posted by Gaskal
League average shooting % is around 9.1%. Here are the 2017-18 Flames:
Michael Frolik: 5.2
Matt Stajan: 5.7
Sam Bennett: 5.8
Curtis Lazar: 5.9
Troy Brouwer: 6.2
Michael Stone: 6.6
Travis Hamonic: 6.8
Mikael Backlund: 7.0
Mark Jankowski: 7.2
Brett Kulak: 7.2
Garnet Hathaway: 7.7
Dougie Hamilton: 7.9
Mark Giordano: 8.1
TJ Brodie: 8.1
Matthew Tkachuk: 8.5
Micheal Ferland: 10.1
Johnny Gaudreau: 10.4
Sean Monahan: 10.7
And here are the newcomers:
Noah Hanifin 7.6
Derek Ryan 8.3
Elias Lindholm 8.7
James Neal 11.5
If just half of the sub 0.091 shooters increase back towards the mean, we should see quite a bit more offense even if Gaudreau-Monahan-Neal regress a bit.
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As is often pointed out, not all players are created equal in their ability to create goals, which is why some players like Neal and Monahan have historically high shooting percentages. But what that breakdown does show is a significant drop in career-average shooting percentages for an inordinately high number of players, including Frolik, Bennett, Brodie and Backlund.