One of our shot types has been getting lower and lower every year — clear-sighted shots, ones where the goalie has more than half a second of clear sight on the puck before it comes off the stick from the slot. When you look at most of the public data, that shot from the slot area — home plate, the house, however you refer to it — that would be qualified as a high-danger shot for most companies out there.
That doesn’t qualify as a high-danger shot for us because we’ve looked at roughly 5,000 chances a year on clear-sighted shots that come from the slot. So a player skates into the slot area, unobstructed, has a bit of time and space, shoots and tries to beat a goalie clean. Now, the unfortunate role I have is that I have to go and explain to a team that this year, that shot only went in 7.1 percent of the time.
