The New York Rangers need to start shooting for rebounds. It’s going to be integral for them to do so in order to have a successful season.
At the surface it seems absolutely insane to say that shooting to score in a sport like hockey, where scoring chances and goals are hard to come by, is a negative for a team not tanking for Connor Bedard. But if you peel back the layers, not every shot is created equal, which can be noted by everyone’s favorite stat; Expected Goals.
According to Alison Lukan, who covers the Seattle Kraken, expected goals can be defined as a formula that considers a variety of factors and then mathematically assigns a value to each shot attempt that represents the probability of that shot becoming a goal.