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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
To me though the data to me shows that the team was giving up a ridiculous quality and volume of HD chances, and Markstrom just couldn't keep up with it as shown by his HD save percentage change. Based on what the team was giving up in Round 2 there was no chance for Markstrom to maintain his performance.
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That's the biggest weakness, I find, in tracking ‘high-danger’ scoring chances. There's no upper limit to the weight class, so to speak. When a player gets a shot from ‘home plate’ with no teammate in front of the net, that, as I understand it, is a high-danger chance. When he gets the shot through traffic with a man parked outside the crease to deflect the puck, that's also a high-danger chance. And when five Oilers swarm into the corner, leaving an opposing player all alone in front of the net to pose for a ‘This Guy Scored’ picture… that is a high-danger chance.
I wonder how much the stats could be improved if they added a fourth category, for clean breakaways and other situations where there is no defending player to help the goalie. Call it ‘unopposed scoring chances’ or something like that.