The Master of Deflection

[crosbyshow]

His Eye-hand coordination is unreal

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[The Hockey Tonk Man]

Vanek says hello

 

[Sam Spade]

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/threads/crosby-goty.2467481/

 

[tom leafers]

Hes pretty good. I think JVR is pretty underrated when it comes to hand eye co-ordination too.

 

[Machinehead]

 

[Machinehead]

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To be fair, the four guys ahead of Crosby live in front of the net. Sid's totals are pretty impressive for a guy who scores other ways.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

I've not seen anyone else that even comes close to Sid's level of eye-hand coordination. The craziness is that he makes plays like these literally every game.

 

[TheMule93]

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To be fair, the four guys ahead of Crosby live in front of the net. Sid's totals are pretty impressive for a guy who scores other ways.

Where would holmstrom fall on this chart?

 

[Machinehead]

Where would holmstrom fall on this chart?

No idea because we didn't have the data back then, but based on the eye test, I'd wager he's at least as good as Simmonds/Pavelski/Kreider.

 

[Paperbagofglory]

I was going to say Bettman but i think i misunderstood the title...... or did i?

 

[JustaFinnishGuy]

Where would holmstrom fall on this chart?

Not in the top 20

 

[TheGoldenGod]

Pavelski

 

[Pengwins]

its weird someone put in all that work for the video and didn't include the deflection goal between his legs against the Flyers

 

[CanadianPensFan1]

The best part of this video is its not even half a second after the 2nd ball leaves the bat before everyone knew it was gone lol

 

[Trap Jesus]

Does anyone know how the classification of "tip" vs. "deflection" differs on NHL.com's stats?

I feel like shots are a good stat to track for this, not just goals. There's an element of luck involved with it being a goal or not, you're just trying to catch the goalie off guard with a change of direction.

 

[KingTux]

Wasn't Joe Nieuwendyk very good at deflecting puck as well ? Not trying to open a debate vs Crosby, just want to hear some opinion.

 

[Albus Dumbledore]

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To be fair, the four guys ahead of Crosby live in front of the net. Sid's totals are pretty impressive for a guy who scores other ways.

JvR seems really low,considering like 90% of his goals are with like 7 feet of the net.
Do you have a chart for goals within 5 feet of the net? Interested to see who some of the best greasy goal scorers are.

 

[Mattb124]

I heard a stat the other night that Pavelski has the most tip in goals over the last 3-4 years. Sid has some fancier tip ins, but Pavs is pretty stellar in his own right.

 

[Machinehead]

JvR seems really low,considering like 90% of his goals are with like 7 feet of the net.
Do you have a chart for goals within 5 feet of the net? Interested to see who some of the best greasy goal scorers are.

They used to have nifty heatmaps of where each player is shooting from, but they stopped tracking it in 2015-16

But anyway, here's some data from 2010-2016.

JVR is low on the ranking I posted because it's deflections only. JVR only had 13 of those. But he had 92 tip-in's which includes rebounds and grounded one-timers. He's very adept around the net, as you can see from the orange.

 

[Albus Dumbledore]

They used to have nifty heatmaps of where each player is shooting from, but they stopped tracking it in 2015-16

But anyway, here's some data from 2010-2016.

JVR is low on the ranking I posted because it's deflections only. JVR only had 13 of those. But he had 92 tip-in's which includes rebounds and grounded one-timers. He's very adept around the net, as you can see from the orange.

Yeah saw a chart where he was top 5 on goals within a certain amount of feet of the net this year.

Whatever team signs him doesn't have to worry about his goals, he's gonna get 25 minimum.

 

[VoluntaryDom]

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To be fair, the four guys ahead of Crosby live in front of the net. Sid's totals are pretty impressive for a guy who scores other ways.

Surprised to see JVR so low

Pavelski near the top should surprise no one

 

[I am not exposed]

The first player I thought of when I saw this thread was Pavelski .