How many goals for Ovechkin this season?

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

All of them, apparently.

Good god, I feared it’d be a slog. At this rate he’ll be done, uh, soon.

59 goals. That’s an absurd number, but he’s absurd at the moment. 5 goals in 2 games, 2 in a back-to-back, at that age? Greatness.

 

[WarriorofTime]

At this point, hopefully more than 15

 

[alphabetical]

It’s up .02. That’s pretty much nothing. And he shot 18.4% last season at the end more due to that he started poorly and he was due for some luck regression to the mean.

I don’t buy that he can shoot 21% over the course of the season. These seasons can happen, but I would never predict it for a player.

What's up .02? You've spit out like a third of a thought there, and I don't know what the rest was.

And you really should look into shooting percent leaders from past years. 20% isn't as impossible as you think over the coarse of a season. I don't expect you to, but you really should look into it.

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

What's up .02? You've spit out like a third of a thought there, and I don't know what the rest was.

And you really should look into shooting percent leaders from past years. 20% isn't as impossible as you think over the coarse of a season. I don't expect you to, but you really should look into it.

Sorry if it wasn't clear. The .02 is referring to the comment you made that shooting percentage is up. Shooting percentage is up .02. We're not talking about it being up five percent. It's up a completely negligible difference, so I'm not sure how that really helps the argument for him shooting in the 20's over the course of this season.

I never said 20% is impossible, but no it isn't something that anyone should be predicting on any type of individual basis. It's statistically just very unlikely, and the odds say that if the shots are going in now that they'll find a way to not go in eventually. This stuff usually has a funny way of collating around 5-15% for like 99% of NHL forwards during the course of a season.

 

[alphabetical]

Sorry if it wasn't clear. The .02 is referring to the comment you made that shooting percentage is up. Shooting percentage is up .02. We're not talking about it being up five percent. It's up a completely negligible difference, so I'm not sure how that really helps the argument for him shooting in the 20's over the course of this season.

I never said 20% is impossible, but no it isn't something that anyone should be predicting on any type of individual basis. It's statistically just very unlikely, and the odds say that if the shots are going in now that they'll find a way to not go in eventually. This stuff usually has a funny way of collating around 5-15% for like 99% of NHL forwards during the course of a season.

.02..... percent? or .02 as in 2%? Seriously man, put together a complete thought. The site i sourced shows it up .002, which is .2%. It also shows a long term trend over the last 10 years from 8.5% to 9.9%, suggesting a comparison between this season and a career average over the last 20 years is deeply flawed.

And the rest of your post rambles on about vague averages that aren't very well supported or defined. Good work, you've convinced yourself you're right, and you've refused to look into past years league leaders in shooting percentage just as I expected.

 

[User9992]

He got injured in the midde of his 18'th game after scoring 15 goals.

It's a pity cause he is in great form.

 

[Albatros]

Would be poetic justice if that was that. Unfortunately it won't be.