Quick Hits: The Using Your Heads Edition
In Red Wings Land
What is the Red Wings' subjective criteria for a scoring chance? Shot location is part of it. So is the distance the goalie had to travel to make the save. "The more the goalie has to move, the greater the likelihood of the puck going in."
— Nick Cotsonika (@cotsonika) October 19, 2021
Blashill, on defining scoring chances and tracking them objectively: "We've written algorithms that take a lot of those factors into play. This will all get improved greatly as we are able to really harness the puck tracking and the player tracking."
— Nick Cotsonika (@cotsonika) October 19, 2021
Around the League
St. Louis’ Pavel Buchnevich has been suspended for two games for Head-butting Arizona’s Lawson Crouse. https://t.co/0PZIpVeX6Y
— NHL Player Safety (@NHLPlayerSafety) October 20, 2021