It'd be nice to have that kind of chart on a per minute basis. Sure, Sekac seems awfully low, but given the fact he's been benched for 7 games and used on the 3rd/4th line for quite a while, he hasn't been put in a position to rack up opportunities either. He only plays 13:44 on average.
I don't know if those stats are available, however, and I'm far too lazy to calculate them myself.
Here you go.
http://stats.hockeyanalysis.com/rat...16&type=individual&sort=ishots60&sortdir=DESC
Couple of things:
-Eller had the same shot rate as Plekanec before he injured his shoulder, something that averaged to a little over 2 5v5 shots per game. Only 10 shots in 10 games since he's come back, the break will probably do him some good but, realistically, I would expect him to settle somewhere in between based on usage and history.
-Before everyone blames his lack of vision for Sekac not shooting (I know it's coming) Sekac is at 2.49 shots per 60 without Eller, 5.29 with. Not clear if he'll ever be much of a shooter, he seems to hold onto the puck alot, not necessarily in a "looking for the perfect shot" way but more in "looks to cycle" way.
His shot rate will probably go up (he's 22!) but, ideally, I would look to get someone with a sneakily good 5v5 shot/goal rate to put with him and Eller. Bergenheim and Grabner are good options (both top 50 5v5 goalscorer over the last 3 years), though looking at it Grabner's shot rate isn't quite there this year.
-Galchenyuk was at over 8 shots per 60 before he got moved to center, he's dropped a fair bit since. I would have still left him there but it's worth noting. That one might be slightly affected by the fact that the team had (and not just him but all over the lineup) a terrible possession stretch over that time (as opposed to a slightly incompetent one) and it's kinda hard to shoot when the other team has the puck.
-Pacioretty rules
-Speaking of sneakily good shot rates: Gallagher, top 30 5v5 shot rate for the 3rd straight season.
-Plekanec's shot rate weirdly bounces from something around 9.5 to around 7.5 year to year. 9.5, 7.5, 9.5, 7.5 ...
-I thought Subban was mostly hurt by the PP but this is the worst shot rate he's put up in his career yet.
-Dale Weise has a pretty good shot rate for a fourth liner, I think he's too much of a defensive blackhole to be a top 9 player in any scenario that doesn't involve playing there in a pinch because of injuries but that's a good skill to have in the bottom of a lineup (also his awesome penalty differential).
-Player's 5v5 shot rate would look better if that team had the puck more.
-Overall shots numbers would look better if they actually shot on powerplays, though they DO get less PP time than most teams overall so that doesn't help either.
About how shooting from everywhere would inflate shot rate without having much of an effect on chances, I think I mentionned it on the stats thread but I like what the Kings have done in the last few years. They shoot alot on low % shots (and they do tend to have a lower shooting% than the average team) but they get a big offensive zone faceoffs advantage out of it. Pretty much no one on that team has started less than 50% of their shift in the offensive zone over the last 3 years(!). I mean, when nothing's going in it might not look very smart by the eye test (but no team ever looks good when nothing's going in) but that kind of territorial advantage is massive longterm. It gets much easier to shelter player when having one of the lowest Ozone start % means 50% instead of 40%
Edit: Just noticed Bournival's shot rate. Pretty good, but small sample, curious to see if he keeps it up.
