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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
You do a good job with providing a deeper dive into the game. Do the HDC include slot chances? Or it's that a separate breakdown?
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Both Scoring Chances (ranked 10th) and High Danger Chances (15th) are home plate shots.
The difference between the two is what happens before the shot.
If there is a pass, rebound or deflection it moves to high danger (goalie has to move). If there isn't it's just a shot from that area.
So teams with high scoring chance totals have shot volume from dangerous areas, but lack the skill? to make it high danger as often as other teams.
I think that describes the Flames pretty well.
The best teams in all situations generate 14 high danger chances per game, the worst 9 ... so it's not a huge chasm. The Flames are at 12 ... so we're talking about 2 per game vs the elite.
Digging a little deeper, the Flames had a great start to the season averaging 13.1 per game in October, hit a wall in November, but bounced back to 13.1 for December.
Same with scoring chances per game ... 32.4 in Oct, 27 in Nov, 32.0 in December.
They seem to be back on track.