LaP
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The worst part of scoring chances and HD scoring chances is the location of the shot plays a too big role and the name of the player and the type of shot/situation a not enough big role. Anyway it was the case some times ago dunno if it's still the case by looking at numbers i would say it's probably still the case. A shot from 1 foot of a goalie ready to make the save by a bottom 6 player is pretty much worthless. Goalies will stop that close to 100% of the time. Yet it will register as a HD scoring chances on pretty much all charts. Yet Ovechkin one timing it from along the board on the PP wont count as a scoring chances at all. If i had to bet my house on one of those 2 shots to go in i would bet on Ovy any day of the week.
A good example of that too is a 2 on 1 Recchi and Turgeon had a long while ago. Upon entering the zone Recchi passed to Turgeon who slap shot it from the blue line (on a 2 on 1 yeah he did that). Turgeon scored with a bullet. Back then it was not a scoring chance since it was a shot from the blueline (dunno if it's still the case). It was still a 2 on 1 and the goalie never expected a one timer from the blue line by one of the best goal scorer ever.
In my beer league i'm far more concerned by the best players taking a shot from the outer limit of a faceoff circle with all the time in the world than a grinder alone in front of the goalie. I'm confident my goalie will stop the grinder this close as long as he doesn't have to move laterally.