Steve Valiquette
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Podcast Appearances
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These are tabs that you can select when you want to go deep into the valley.
What you can do here, Kipper, is you can go and find out left-handed shooter from that exact location on the ice and
in offensive zone play at five on four.
And you can find out how many shots from there in the NHL have been taken this year where Slavkovsky scored the OT winner and how many were goals.
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So the one thing that I found out pretty quickly here is that lefties should never be able to score long side from the left dot.
354 shots came from that spot this year.
41 goals.
So it's an 11.6% chance to score, which falls into mid-danger.
But what did I just finish saying about mid-danger?
You need to overperform your mid-danger to win a playoff series when you're going up against another top goalie.
So that goal kills.
It's not low danger.
It's not critically bad.
But it's bad enough when the margins are thin and you've got the top 16 number one goalies playing.
Now, the one thing I'm looking at, guys, when a goal like that goes in, which it shouldn't happen, when you go long side, I can tell you that when I was with the Edmonton Oilers, Pete Peters was my goalie coach, first guy that ever did this, old school, took ropes from the crossbar, brought it down to the puck.
I'm on my stomach behind the puck getting perspective.
Ty Conklin's in the net, and he says to me, where does the puck have to go if a lefty shoots it?
Can it go far side valley?