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Leafs’ Chance Takers, 2010-11 Regular Season
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Slava Duris
Apr 21, 2011, 17:02 EDT
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Pictured above are two of the Leafs’ leading scoring chance takers from the 2010-11 season, Phil Kessel (most taken on the team) and Nikolai Kulemin (3rd most).  Kulemin had the best shooting percentage on scoring chances out of all Leaf players with at least 50 chances.
Click "Read Article" to view the Chances Taken data for all the Toronto Maple Leafs’ players from this past season.
TSC: Total Scoring Chances
TGC: Total Goals (scoring chances converted into goals).   Goals that weren’t counted as a scoring chance (those scored on fluke plays) are not included.
ChS %: Shooting percentage on scoring chances.  ChS % = Goals / Scoring Chances
Then the scoring chance breakdowns at 5-on-5 (5v5) and 5-on-4 (5v4), which together account for 92.4 % of all Leafs’ chances.  Due to space limitations, 4-on-4, 4-on-3, and 2-man advantage situations aren’t included here.
I recorded a scoring chance whenever a shot (that isn’t blocked) was taken from within the designated scoring area (see diagram at bottom of this post), or from outside through a screen or traffic in front of the goal.
Player
TSC
TG
ChS %
5v5 C
5v5 G
5v4 C
5v4 G
P. KESSEL
257
31
12.1
186
17
51
10
M. GRABOVSKI
194
27
13.9
138
17
40
9
N. KULEMIN
138
27
19.6
106
22
28
4
C. MACARTHUR
116
21
18.1
91
15
22
6
T. BOZAK
96
15
15.6
63
8
19
6
K. VERSTEEG
86
11
12.8
55
6
23
2
J. LUPUL
58
8
13.8
47
6
10
2
C. ARMSTRONG
52
8
15.4
46
8
0
0
D. PHANEUF
38
6
15.8
18
3
12
2
T. BRENT
35
8
22.9
27
7
3
0
N. KADRI
33
1
3.0
29
1
2
0
F. SJOSTROM
29
2
6.9
26
2
1
0
J. CRABB
29
3
10.3
24
2
3
0
M. BROWN
28
3
10.7
25
2
1
1
T. KABERLE
25
2
8.0
13
2
11
0
L. SCHENN
21
3
14.3
19
3
2
0
F. BEAUCHEMIN
18
3
16.7
13
3
3
0
J. MITCHELL
18
2
11.1
16
1
1
1
D. BOYCE
15
5
33.3
14
5
0
0
C. GUNNARSSON
14
4
28.6
8
3
4
1
B. LEBDA
13
1
7.7
6
1
6
0
L. CAPUTI
10
0
0
9
0
1
0
M. KOMISAREK
7
0
0
6
0
0
0
C. ORR
6
2
33.3
5
2
1
0
K. AULIE
6
1
16.7
5
1
0
0
J. ROSEHILL
4
1
25.0
4
1
0
0
M. FRATTIN
4
0
0
3
0
1
0
M. MUELLER
3
0
0
3
0
0
0
M. ZIGOMANIS
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
J. COLBORNE
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
M. LASHOFF
1
0
0
0
0
1
0
C. HANSON
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
K. HOLZER
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Some more data to supplement the above table:
– There were two games that I didn’t track this data for, but the leading breakaway shooters on the team were Kessel and Grabovski with 5 apiece.  Each player scored a single goal, and Grabovski drew penalty shot chances on 2 plays.
 – On 2-on-1 rushes, Kessel and Kulemin had 6 shots each.  Kessel didn’t score on any of his 2-on-1 opportunites while Kulemin potted 2 goals.
 – High Quality (or A-graded) Scoring Chances* (see bottom of this post for an explanation) for the top six at 5v5: Kessel (43 taken, 7 goals, 16.3 ChS %); Grabovski (33 taken, 6 goals, 18.2 ChS %); Kulemin (30 taken, 13 goals, 43.3 ChS %); MacArthur (26 taken, 8 goals, 30.8 %); Bozak (22 taken, 6 goals, 27.3 ChS %); Lupul (19 taken, 6 goals, 31.6 ChS %)
SCORING AREA (in the green and teal areas):
* – Grade A scoring chances (aka High Quality SCs) – Prime chances for a goal.  For those that aren’t goals, the puck didn’t go in due to either a quality save by the goalie, or the shooter missing the goal.  Odd man rushes, breakaways, rebounds (almost always), and otherwise defensively uncontested scoring chances are given this grade.
And I might as well list the criteria for other two grades that I give out, FWIW:
Grade B chances – A shot taken from within the "slot" and lower part of the circles nearest the goal (the green part in the above diagram) is given this rating if the chance doesn’t fall under the "A" criteria.
Grade C chances – Usually a shot from outside the scoring chance area through screens or traffic in front of the goal, or a shot taken from the higher part of the scoring area (the teal part in the diagram).
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