The NHL’s shot location data has changed—and nobody knows why (Update: ...or do they?)

Photo by Rocky W. Widner/NHL/Getty ImagesUpdate, 10:18 PM CT: Greg Wyshinski of ESPN provided this update at 8:15 PM

That’s right folks - less than 24 hours after Josh and Luke first discussed what they found, the NHL is actually looking into it! We’ll keep you updated if the league provides more information.

With the 2019-2020 NHL season nearly three weeks old, amateur and professional statisticians, armchair analysts, and visualization creators have been hard at work providing deeper insight intothe hockey games we watch each night. The large majority of the publicly-available data and statistics all are derived from the NHL’s own Application Programming Interface (API). Before you yawn and…