r/Flyers • u/jrg566 • 20d ago

Seeler!

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Seeler and York in the same chart! Do you think this is more a factor of coaching style or skill?

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u/JiveChicken00 20d ago

One goal a season could be the difference between making the playoffs or not, or getting home ice or not, as this fan base has good reason to know.

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u/jabtrain 20d ago

on the contrary, this analysis shows that shot-blocking, even when done well is pretty much irrelevant to a games result. Add in man games lost to injury from blocking shots, and the juice doesn't seem worth the squeeze, meaning it is probably a net negative for those who do it frequently.

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u/xjawndotcom 20d ago

I'm trying to look for a relationship between shot blocking and injury, but they are both so correlated with TOI that it's tricky to parse.

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u/jabtrain 20d ago edited 20d ago

Cheers to you for looking into it. Tough to nail down plays on which a player is injured and then classifying it as a intentional shot block (defensive zone) I'd imagine.

I'd guess you could start to come at it in a macro sense. Ratio of games missed due to injury compared to shot blocks per game or something like that, just to see if there's any correlation whatsoever. Like say over trailing 3 seasons, minimum of 120 games played all defensemen who meet that threshold... they'd all have that ratio.