Prior to the season Gabe Desjardins and I had a conversation over at MC79hockey.com where I predicted several players would combine for a 5v5 on-ice shooting percentage above 10.0% while league average is just shy of 8.0%. I documented this in a post prior to the season. In short, I predicted the following: Crosby, Gaborik, Ryan, [...]
Looking at this chart, I think only Lightning fans can sympathize with the torture that Leaf fans have suffered through with regards to their goaltending, but at least the Lightning have made the playoffs a few times and even had some success. Update: For interest sake, here are the post lockout shooting percentages and PDO [...]
One of my beefs in the analysis and evaluation of hockey players is the notion that PDO (on-ice shooting percentage plus on-ice save percentage) can be used as a proxy for luck. A perfect example of how PDO is used as a proxy for luck is this article by Neil Greenberg about the Washington Capitals. [...]
I have been having a discussion as to whether shot quality exists over at Pension Plan Puppets and more precisely whether certain players can drive a teams shooting percentage while they are on the ice. As part of the discussion I brought up the on-ice shooting percentage differences between Scott Gomez and Michael Cammalleri and decided [...]
Gabe Desjardins of Arctic Ice Hockey asks the question about whether a player can influence his teammates shooting percentage. To answer this question he took a look at the Pittsburgh Penguins shooting percentages with and without Mario Lemieux. The conclusion: I’d posit that Lemieux’s playmaking contribution is about as large as we’re going to consistently [...]
I hate to keep beating the “Shooting Percentage Matters” drum but it really dumbfounds me why so many people choose to ignore it, or believe it is only a small part of the game and not worth considering and instead focus their attention on corsi/fenwick, and corsi/fenwick derived stats as their primary evaluation too. It [...]
There has been a fair bit of discussion going on regarding shot quality the past few weeks among the hockey stats nuts. It started with this article about defense independent goalie rating (DIGR) in the wall street journal and several others have chimed in on the discussion so it is my turn. Gabe Desjardins has [...]
There has been an interesting discussion of on-ice shooting percentage at Tyler Dellow’s mc79hockey.com. I have argued that we need to look at on-ice shooting percentage as a talent, and not something that just happens randomly while others have largely dismissed it. One person in particular is Gabe Desjardin’s who has a followup post on his [...]
An interesting statistical debate sprung up today started by Tom Benjamin who wrote about his skepticism of the Corsi statistic. In it Tom comments on the fact that Ryan Kesler and Ryan Clowe ranked so highly in corsi in response to Greg Ballentine’s posts at The Puck Stops Here. Greg’s examples, it seems to me, [...]
The guys over at Behind the Net have initiated a ‘prove shot quality exists’ competition and in response to that Rob Vollman took a quick and dirty look at shooting percentage suppression. As I showed the other day, Rob’s logic was a little off. Rob started off by identifying a number of players with high [...]
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