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Originally Posted by Red
Expected goals for and unblocked shot attempts are what I was talking about.
Are these not what we would consider advanced? If so, I retract my comment. Any time I see expected this, attempted that I assume it's part of the advanced stats book of hockey analysis.
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I suppose expected goals might be consider somewhat advanced for the reasons edslunch noted, but at the end of thr day the stat I posted is still an individual stat, not some fancy microstat, on-ice stat, relative stat, or especially complicated impact advanced stat that might be far more open to interpretation. Where a player's shots are coming from crossed with the volume of those shots... I think that's a pretty simple thing to discuss, unlike plus minus. That's all I see xG as. You control your expected goals by taking more shots and taking them from more apparently dangerous areas. You don't control your plus minus.
As for unblocked shot attempts? I think that's as unadvanced as it gets. It's just your shot attempts leaving your stick that were not blocked.