Reply To: Statistics – Used for critical area’s on the ice

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RookieCoach wrote:
Coaches,
We all hear about statistics such as SOG, PPG, GF,GA.etc. These are the statistics that I want to stay away from in this post.

I want statistics that will help coaches understand critical area's and strength and weakness on the ice. We all see mistakes that players and teams make , but how many times are these mistakes made consistently and what is the percentage of a scoring chance because of these mistakes.

On the flip side , percentages for goals being scored and where they come from.

Example- 70-80 % of goals are scored from a rebound or second chance. ( if that stat is accurate ).
– 85-90 % of shots off the outside pad of a goalie (low ) will have a rebound out in the slot.

Can anyone answer the following statistics.
1- Turnovers at the blue off the rush ?(Offensive) . What is the percentage of scoring chances create from these turnovers?
2- Turnovers 5-8 ft from the defensive blue line on the breakout (failing to get the puck out) ? Scoring chances from these turnovers.?
3- Percentage of goals or scoring chances from uneven numbers at defensive blueline? (Poor back check)
4- Goals or scoring chances created from the quiet zone.?
5 – Point shots ?

If anyone has the answers it would be neat to start a list . Any coaches that have any statistics that or want to know statistics from certain area's of the ice. Learning where the high risk area's are , would be a first step in fixing them.

Thanks in advance
RookieCoach

Hockey is a TRANSITION WORLD… we gotta adapt and play in it!

A turnover must be capitalized upon within 3 seconds! This is why the principle of TRANSITION is so important. The game is comprised of 100's of transitions per game. Look at Kai's video of Detroit with the Red, Yellow, Green highlights indicating the other team has possession / loose puck / your team has possession (a '0-1-2' situation).

The answers to these questions are found within Bjorn Kindling's study "Transition", using the 1990 World Championships (Men) and World Cup 1994. His presentation, in it's entirety, can be found (purchased from Hockey Canada) in the 1994 Advanced 2 Proceedings. Also try Googling it…

There might be additional data / studies available since, but I can't find them right now. Of course, you could record some current NHL or age-appropriate games yourself and code it yourself… if you have time!! (Not likely…!)

Understand that the level he used to study mirrored professional play, with the rules, skill sets and philosophies of the early 1990's. Things have changed… rules, player fitness, height, weight, overall skills, philosophies, etc! So take this info with a grain of salt. It is 20 years old!

A few quotes from Bjorn:

"In top international play, for instance the final game of the 1994 World Cup, puck possession changed from one team to the other 7.7 times per minute. There's just no time to get the whole team 100 percent into defending before there's a chance to attack again… you are constantly playing "transition hockey" "

"In 1990, I studied and analyzed the transition in 'modern' ice hockey. The study included games from the World Cup Pools A and B, the Swiss and German playoffs and the NHL. The result showed that 60 percent of all goals were scored on the transition, which means, that almost three times as many goals are scored on transition as on the power play (23 percent). But how many teams practice transition three times as much as they practice the power play?"

"If we focus on play with equal numbers of players on both sides, then 88 percent of all goals are scored on transitions… 94 percent of all first class scoring chances are created on transitions."

"…if you want to be good in the game of hockey you have to be great in the game of transition."

"FACTOR 1: TIME. Approximately 88 percent of all goals are scored within 10 seconds after the transition has taken place. But your advantage at the transition moment only lasts for about three seconds. Three seconds is the time a top level team needs to regroup from O to D.Your advantage depends on whether you can surprise your opponent by attacking while they are still in an offensive position. This means, you have a three second limit to make a decision which will determine the success of the whole attack."

"FACTOR 2 – FIRST PLAY. The first play has to go forwards or sideways…"

FACTOR 3 – SCREENING. [No longer allowed in today's rules!]

"FACTOR 4 – THE GOALTENDERS. Your GT is the player who can most often start an attack on the transition from your end."

[Do you include the goalie in passing skills / activities where they must handle and pass the puck / be part of the play? If not, you are way behind the times, my friend! Soccer has been including their goalies for years!]

"FACTOR 5 – POSITION OF PLAYERS. As the game is shifting back and forth from D to O there's no time for major changes of position to either start an attack or to get going with the defensive duties. Each player's O position should therefore be as identical as possible with his / her D ones."

I can't replicate his diagram of where his numbers are on a hockey rink… so try to follow me.

Looking 'down' at a rink. Left hand side is your zone (DZ) and right hand side is the O zone.

Bjorn draws a line in the zone to separate the prime scoring area, but makes it go from the both posts, to both end zone faceoff dots, straight out (90 degrees) to each wall and all the way up to the blueline. From the side, it looks like a "V" with wings.

Both corners of your DZ, connected behind the net (1 large area) are 35%.

The rest of your DZ (the "V" with wings) is 46%.

Blueline to blueline is 30%.

Opposite end zone (OZ) "V" with wings area is 29%.

Opposite end zone in both corners connected behind the net are 13%.

"Figure 1 shows the relationship between transitions and the percentage that led up to an O benefit such as a goal, a scoring chance, a shot on goal or a power play."

If you are still interested, I suggest you find / buy the article / proceedings as I can't type it all in; or do justice to the diagrams!

Hope this helps…

Dean
M.Ed (Coaching)
Ch.P.C. (Chartered Professional Coach)
Game Intelligence Training
"Great education depends on great teaching."