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An analysis of the top centre in Tuesday’s Leafs vs Senators pre-season game

Data is from Natural Stat Trick. I’ve used score and venue adjusted five-on-five numbers throughout.

First a couple of glossary notes. NST lists individual shots (iCF) and breaks them down by scoring chance and high-danger scoring chance (iSCF and iHDCF). This is a shot location categorization that is bluntly useful, but not as good as using expected goals to judge individual effort. But I don’t have expected goals, so we will use the less accurate way of judging how players played.

It’s not like this is Finland where you get a real-time shot plot you can filter by individual player on the league site.