Approximately three weeks after the issue was initially discovered, the shot location data in the NHL’s play-by-play listings have been corrected. Shortly after the discovery was made by Josh and Luke Younggren of Evolving-Hockey.com, the NHL issued a statement that the transition to new analytics tools this season were likely the source of the issue, as also reported in this edition of 31 Thoughts by Elliotte Friedman.
Last night, the Younggrens announced that the majority of the first 91 games had been fixed:
Announcement!!! It appears that we now have, for the most part, completely updated event coordinates from the NHL!