Journal TopShelf's Journal: It's all in the wrist 1
Fresh data right out of the oven posted over at the blog. All NHL goals from the 2005-2006 regular season (non-empty net), broken down by distance and shot type (slapshot, wrister, etc.), along with a subset view of power play results.
The interesting thing to note here is the increased incidence of medium-range slapshot goals on the power play, as teams work the puck around and get clear shots from the point...
Over the weekend I'll get into the real juicy stuff - save percentage by distance and shot type, and then a further breakdown team by team, and eventually goalie by goalie.
Don't forget period by period (Score:2)
To account for fatigue issues, and time into the period, to see if we can generate any correlations vis a vis ice surface quality.
I could drive you crazy with these ideas. :-)