{"id":479,"date":"2009-02-02T22:54:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/blogs\/beanpot-blog\/bsullivan82\/20090202\/shot-totals-are-stupid.html"},"modified":"2009-02-02T22:54:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T03:54:53","slug":"shot-totals-are-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp-admin.uscho.com\/2009\/02\/02\/shot-totals-are-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Shot Totals are Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BC has been credited with 45 shots tonight. Even if NU had 80 under their logo (and they don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s 26), I&#8217;d still be sitting here, railing against shots as the be-all, end-all statistical indicator of game flow. Shots mean squat if you can&#8217;t develop screens, can&#8217;t create cross-ice opportunities, can&#8217;t crash the net and can&#8217;t finish.<\/p>\n<p>One minute left, and the Dog House let&#8217;s &#8217;em know it. BC&#8217;s Cam Atkinson on a shorthanded pseudo-breakaway, but can&#8217;t pull the backhand trigger early enough to be Thiessen, who has been an absolute rock. He&#8217;s just won himself the Eberly Award (highest save percentage in the Beanpot) tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BC has been credited with 45 shots tonight. Even if NU had 80 under their logo (and they don&#8217;t, it&#8217;s 26), I&#8217;d still be sitting here, railing against shots as the be-all, end-all statistical indicator of game flow. Shots mean squat if you can&#8217;t develop screens, can&#8217;t create cross-ice opportunities, can&#8217;t crash the net and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1425],"tags":[1188],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shot Totals are Stupid - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"BC has been credited with 45 shots tonight. 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