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The term 'expected goals' appeared in a paper about ice hockey performance presented by Brian Macdonald [4] at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference in 2012. Macdonald's method for calculating expected goals was reported in the paper: We used data from the last four full NHL seasons. For each team, the season was split into two halves.
Corsi, called shot attempts (SAT) by the NHL, [4] is the sum of shots on goal, missed shots and blocked shots. [5] It is named after coach Jim Corsi, but was developed by an Edmonton Oilers blogger and fan who developed the statistic to better measure the workload of a goaltender during a game. [6]
SHA – Shorthanded assists – Number of goals the player has assisted in while his team was shorthanded. GWG – Game-winning goals – Number of game-winning goals the player has scored (a goal is considered game winning when the team would win the game without scoring any more goals, for example, the winning team's third goal in a 5–2 win).
After all, Forsberg piled up 42 goals and 84 points in 69 games during the 2021-22 season. Additionally, Nashville's offense has been slightly better in 2023-24, scoring 3.00 goals per game ...
Fenwick is an indicator of how much a team controls the puck offensively throughout the course of a game. [4] A positive Fenwick number would indicate that a team spends more time in the offensive zone than the defensive zone, while a negative Fenwick numbers would indicate that a team is more frequently in the defensive zone than offensive zone.
All overtime in the NHL is sudden death—meaning the first team to score is the winner—so the player who scores in overtime also has the game-winning goal. Alexander Ovechkin , 22 Sidney Crosby , 13
Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals is closing in on the NHL career goals record of 894 held by Wayne Gretzky. Ovechkin has 868 goals after scoring 15 in the first 18 games this season.
Clint Benedict, a goaltender of the 1920s in the NHL holds several GAA records. Goals against average (GAA) also known as "average goals against" or "AGA" is a statistic used in field hockey, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, and water polo that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender or goalkeeper (depending on sport).