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Breaking Down The Shootout
by Paul on 08/05/09 at 01:51 PM ET
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from John Kreiser of NHL.com,
We’ve now had four seasons in which games that remain tied after overtime have been decided by a shootout—a breakaway competition of three (or more, as needed) rounds in which shooters go 1-on-1 with goaltenders.
Those four seasons have shown that some players and some teams are better at the shootout than others. Most interesting is the fact that some of hockey’s big names have struggled in the shootout, while a number of lesser lights have shone brightly.
Here’s a look at some of the best of the first four seasons of the shootout:
Mr. Perfect —Fifteen active players have scored on all of their shootout attempts—but 14 of those have only one try. Dallas captain Brenden Morrow is the only player in the NHL who’s perfect in more than one attempt: He’s 2-for-2, and both goals were game-deciders.
The 14 players who are 1-for-1 don’t include many household names—they’re guys who got their chance in a long shootout after teams exhausted their big guns. However, most of them did come through in the clutch; 10 of them scored the game-deciding goal.
Boston’s Chuck Kobasew is the complete opposite—he’s never scored in a shootout, although he’s had eight tries.
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If the league is hell bent on keeping this, I still say they should expand it to 5 shooters. Having 3 shooters seems a bit anti climatic to me as its over too quickly and there is very little drama in the thing. I don’t know why they chose 3 except maybe to keep injury chances down. But, having 5 shooters will allow more comebacks, hence injecting much more drama into the whole thing.
Posted by UMFan from Colorado on 08/05/09 at 05:33 PM ET
Call me a Homer, but how come Datsyuk is not on that list? NHL Players Poll’s consistently put Datsyuk as the player they would want in that position… Several NHL Goaltenders have been quoted (Turco comes to mind) as saying that Datsyuk is the shooter they would least like to face in a shoot out…
As for the 5 man shootout, I am not sure why they have not switched to that format, most of the minor leagues used a 5 man format. Maybe it was to keep things quick to appease the tv networks?
Posted by wingsnut25 from Cheboygan, MI on 08/06/09 at 08:21 AM ET
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Mr. Clutch—The average success rate on shootout attempts is approximately 33 percent—one out of three. That means Sidney Crosby, who’s scored on 31.6 percent of his attempts, is slightly below average. But no player is better than Crosby at making his shots count.
Crosby has scored just 12 times in his 38 shootout attempts, but nine of the 12 were game-deciding goals. He’s tied with Phil Kessel and Viktor Kozlov for third in GDGs; Slava Kozlov and Ales Kotalik are first with 11.
Pittsburgh’s captain has been especially timely on the road. He’s just 5-for-21 away from Mellon Arena—but all five have decided the outcome.
Yeah,but he only had 3 points in the Finals. {sarcasm}
Posted by Lindas1st on 08/05/09 at 02:19 PM ET