"Oh God they’re coming for me!" I believe that shot location is critical in assessing a players’ shooting percentages, and probably has some bearing on the sustainability of a player’s goal totals. If, for example, a player collects a pile of goals shooting from the tops of the offensive zone faceoff circles, I would…
Leafs fans don’t need advanced statistics to figure out which of their three goalies was the most effective in the past season, but these statistics do provide context to what we witnessed in the games. Similarly, the graphs I’ve created that show the location of each shot taken at 5-on-5 and on the road against…
It’s been a while now that PPP and Chemmy have been writing here at The Leafs Nation, but it’s also been readily apparent that they’ve been lonely without their usual, er, companions. Tired of playing “Palmela Handerson” with each other, they have decided to start recruiting others to do their dirty work, and what better…
