Guest Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 2 minutes ago, luckylager said: Stop shooting at the post, Petey. Geez If you shoot around the goalie three things can happen. 1. It goes in the net for a goal (YAY) 2. It can hit the post 3. It can miss the net entirely It least he's close to scoring. Kind of old article but apparently he hits more posts than anyone else. Quote When Elias Pettersson misses the net, he hits more posts than anyone else DECEMBER 11, 2019 01:26 PM Elias Pettersson hits a lot of posts and crossbars. Just look at the Canucks’ last game against the Toronto Maple Leafs: looking for a comeback in the third period, Pettersson nailed the crossbar with two hard wrist shots. Pettersson looked skyward after his shots beat Frederik Andersen, but not the bar, lamenting the missed opportunity. It seems like this happens a lot and I was curious to see if the numbers backed up this perception. According to the stats kept on NHL.com, Pettersson leads the Canucks in both crossbars and posts hit, with a combined 7 this season. That seems a little low and these stats are sometimes a little inaccurate, but that at least suggests that the perception is true. The next highest Canucks are Josh Leivo, Brock Boeser, and Jake Virtanen, who have each hit 3 posts/crossbars, so Pettersson has hit twice as many. How does that compare to the rest of the NHL? The only player that has hit more posts and crossbars this season is Leon Draisaitl, who has hit the post 9 times this season to go with his 19 goals. Next is Pettersson and Cale Makar, with 7 each. On a side note, Pettersson also leads the NHL this season in missed shots that go over the net, with 10. Clearly Pettersson likes to go upstairs. I wanted to look at this a little differently. How many of Pettersson’s missed shots hit the post or crossbar? In other words, when he misses, does he tend to miss by a lot or by a little. This might speak to just how accurate his shot is. We already know that Pettersson has one of the most accurate shots in the league, whether we’re looking at his slap shot, snap shot, or wrist shot. His slap shot, in fact, is the most accurate in the league. When I looked at his shooting percentages recently, his career shooting percentage of 23.26% on slap shots led the entire NHL. But what happens when he misses? I looked at his career numbers on NHL.com and found that of Pettersson’s missed shots, he hit a post or crossbar on 16.5% of them. That’s...well, that’s a number. It doesn’t really tell us much unless we compare it to something. So, I looked at the data I had on shots over the last five seasons and looked at posts and crossbars from that data. Among players with at least 50 missed shots over the past five seasons, the leader among forwards in percentage of misses that were posts/crossbars is, strangely enough, former-Canuck Adam Cracknell, who scored 5 goals in 44 games with the Canucks back in 2015-16. He played 69 games with the Dallas Stars the following year, scoring 10 goals, then had trouble sticking in the NHL after that, playing most of his games in the AHL. 15.28% of Cracknell’s missed shots over the past five seasons, including that year with the Canucks, hit the post. Perhaps if a few more of those shots had been an inch or two more accurate, Cracknell would still be in the NHL instead of playing this season in the KHL with Kunlun Red Star. If we expand our sample size to 100 missed shots, we get a couple more reasonable players at the top, players with excellent shots, even if they’re not among the league’s best goalscorers: Oliver Bjorkstrand (12.88%), Clayton Keller (12.50%), Michael Cammalleri (12.35%), and Artemi Panarin (12.01%). Of that group, Panarin comes with the largest sample size, with over 300 missed shots. With 12.01% of his missed shots hitting the post or crossbar, he was awfully close to hitting 30 goals in every single one of his seasons: he had 27 and 28 in his last two. What’s clear, however, is that Pettersson hits the post or crossbar on a much higher percentage of his misses. 16.5% is above even the small sample size of Cracknell, and well beyond the larger samples of the above players. Pettersson cuts things close with his shots and it seems to be a testament to his shooting philosophy: when he takes a shot, he’s always shooting to score, not just putting a puck on net. He’s looking to pick a corner, which shows up both in the posts/crossbars and in the shots that miss over the net. It’s also a testament to his accuracy. More than most NHLers, when he misses, he just barely misses. In an ideal world for the Canucks, Pettersson starts putting a few of those near misses into the back of the net. While he’s on-pace for 31 goals, it wouldn’t hurt to add a few more, particularly in close games or attempted comebacks, like Tuesday’s game against the Leafs. https://www.vancourier.com/pass-it-to-bulis/when-elias-pettersson-misses-the-net-he-hits-more-posts-than-anyone-else-1.24033051 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-NucksFan Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Hey I want her toque Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1-d Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 We should be up 4-0 now if it weren't for those spy crossbar and goal posts. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HockeyHarry Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Brock had crazy skills his last shift 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck73_3 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 1 minute ago, wildwood12 said: Shots 27 to 7 Nucks. LOL AlL gReEn DoEs Is DeFeNd ThE lEaD 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spook007 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 7 minutes ago, oldnews said: 7 points and +7 in his last 11 games and 2 periods.... I'd say thats living up to his contract... big time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cuporbust Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 We need a big third here, but wow exactly what this team needed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
higgyfan Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 1 minute ago, Amebushi said: This has to stop! The bucks are outplaying the opposition at both ends. Defence looks strong and we are winning. Louie is scoring, Myers looks good tonight...what are we supposed to whine about???? Green! He needs to call a timeout soon! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qwags Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 At the risk of jinxing it, wtf has happened to the Sharks? They're so bad. Reminds me of the Canucks 2-3 years ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerMainLander18 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Had to go put on some sunblock during 1st intermission. LE is fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SergioMomesso Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 I count only one shift we were hemmed in our zone. And it was only for 20 seconds at the most. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Just now, spook007 said: I'd say thats living up to his contract... big time... for a few weeks haha.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silent Man Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Somebody said that LE will score 3 goals tonight. He still might... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Glensky Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Just now, canuck73_3 said: AlL gReEn DoEs Is DeFeNd ThE lEaD Im riding this train to the end. No more Green hate till he pulls the goalie with 6 minutes left in game 7 SCF. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CptCanuck16 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 2 minutes ago, rychicken said: We can rebuild him... Should they rename the rink 'Little Things Arena' to honour him when he retires, do you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spur1 Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Lol...and I got flamed for saying at the beginning of the year the Sharks were going to take a step back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-SN- Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 1 minute ago, Qwags said: At the risk of jinxing it, wtf has happened to the Sharks? They're so bad. Reminds me of the Canucks 2-3 years ago. They need to ship half the team in from an old folks home every game, so that's gotta start taking a toll. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
We_Are_All_Canucks_4_life Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 3 minutes ago, Amebushi said: This has to stop! The bucks are outplaying the opposition at both ends. Defence looks strong and we are winning. Louie is scoring, Myers looks good tonight...what are we supposed to whine about???? The pp not scoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Fig Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Canucks up 27-7 in shots after 40. Giants up 29-9 in their game after 40. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4thLineGrinder Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 1 minute ago, viking mama said: So are the Canucks still “a team like that” or are they a “team like this”?! Going for a “W” every time, big time, going forward. Me likey “a team like this”! you can get with this or you can get with that but you should get with this because this is where it's at 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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