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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This will help to drive a statistics revolution in which analysts will be able to track actual puck possession, as opposed to depending on proxies for it like shot attempt splits.
It’s not for everyone, but will be massively interesting and important to hockey observers beyond coaches.
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This will be huge, and very welcome.
It will be interesting to see which statistics darlings in the current system (teams and individuals) are seen in a different light.
Most interesting to me will be what data becomes available to categorize shots and infer shot quality, particularly the contextual info prior to shots. Hopefully a model emerges that allows for an appropriate evaluation and comparison of goaltender performance.