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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Shooting percentage, including misses

By Tangotiger, 10:23 AM

The NHL has two categories for shots: was it a goal?  was it a save?  That’s it.  If, for example, you shoot the puck wide of the net (it is neither a goal, nor a save), it doesn’t count as a shot.  This is of course ridiculous.  He shot the puck toward the net, and if he just misses the net, it is still a shot.  (This issue is even more laughable in shootout stats.  If the goalie someone plays his position in such a way that the shooter shoots the puck wide, the goalie is not given any credit for that whatsoever.)

Gabriel gives us shooting percentage by location on the ice, which includes the shots that went wide:


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