Taking a Shot: What Matters and Who Should Take It?
In the Taking a Shot series, we’ve been exploring shot attempts and what "funnels" can stop them: blocks, misses and goalie stops. The first few parts looked at variations by team, then by player focusing on the Preds, then those players against the whole league. All analysis has been based upon a 2 million row play-by-play database for the 2016-2017 season. I then process all of that into a form for these posts.
If you want to see the entire resulting spreadsheet of every player in the NHL who met the criteria, it’s here as a google spreadsheet.