Unsustainable shooting %'s - Who can sustain it?

Korpse

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My thoughts as well.

Point did it last season, is off to an insane start this season, and has shot over 20% three times in his career already.

Reinhart's shot a total of 19.2% over the last five seasons (including his last season in Buffalo), so he's got a pretty consistent record at this point of shooting at a clip of close to 20%.

With Reinhart I'd add that he has also found a PP role where he is shooting more which will help inflate his %. 150 shots in the prior two seasons. 32% of his shots coming on the PP during that time.
 

jackjohnson

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Last season we saw only 6 players shot 20% or higher (50GP min):

PlayerGPGSS%
Sam Reinhart825723324.5
Dakota Joshua63188421.4
Simon Holmstrom75157220.8
Anthony Mantha742311320.4
Brayden Point814622720.3
Nils Hoglander802412020

So far this season (10GP+, 15+ shots), a whopping 56 players:

PlayerGPGSS%
Brayden Point1171936.8
Adam Gaudette1061735.3
Matt Duchene1172035
Ryan Donato1061931.6
Jonathan Huberdeau1151631.3
Ivan Barbashev1272330.4
Jordan Eberle1262030
Cole Caufield12103429.4
Leon Draisaitl1182927.6
Alex Laferriere1282927.6
Paul Cotter1462227.3
Tim Stützle1162227.3
Eeli Tolvanen1241526.7
Joel Kiviranta1241526.7
Sam Reinhart13103826.3
Nic Dowd1041625
Alexis Lafrenière1052025
Nikolaj Ehlers1172924.1
Tom Wilson1062524
Stefan Noesen1452123.8
Nick Paul1141723.5
Dylan Larkin1173023.3
Chris Kreider1062623.1
Alex DeBrincat1152222.7
Drake Batherson1152222.7
Kirill Kaprizov1073122.6
Connor McMichael1073122.6
Craig Smith1041822.2
Brandon Hagel1162722.2
Nico Hischier14104522.2
Gabriel Vilardi1141822.2
Aliaksei Protas1041822.2
Claude Giroux1152321.7
Mats Zuccarello1052321.7
Brock Boeser1052321.7
Troy Terry1052321.7
Ross Colton1083721.6
Brett Howden1262821.4
Fabian Zetterlund1362821.4
Tage Thompson1273321.2
Tomas Hertl1241921.1
Rasmus Andersson1141921.1
Dylan Strome1041921.1
Josh Norris1141921.1
Leo Carlsson1041921.1
Nikita Kucherov1194320.9
Mark Stone1252420.8
Matthew Knies1262920.7
Artemi Panarin1073420.6
William Nylander1283920.5
Kyle Connor1194420.5
Kevin Hayes1331520
Joel Edmundson1031520
Mark Scheifele1163020
Pavel Buchnevich1242020
Pavel Dorofeyev1273520
Notice how Brayden Points shooting percentage still went up from last year...there goes HFboards theory of high shooting percentage always coming down the next season. Although mostly Oilers fans made those claims last season.

Don't quite know, but it has to be the entirety of the 2023-24 Vancouver Canucks.
Yeah, you guys probably have all those stat sheets and whatnot regarding Canucks last season still saved up in a hard drive somewhere
 

CDN24

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A few guys like Point, Reinhart and Krieder historically hit 20% some seasons so they may stay over 20%.

For the most part this is unstainable, except Ross Colton. I fully expect him to sustain his shooting percentage much longer than most of these other guys. He's on IR for the next couple of months, by then he will still be over 20% - most of these guys won't be.
 

Toby91ca

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I think it's just who Reinhart is, that he puts himself into great position and has excellent accuracy so staying above 20% seems like something he will still do.
Maybe, but the history isn't here.....perhaps he simply turned a corner last year. Before last season, the highest he's ever been in a full season was 17.7%....he had 19.2% in a shortened season. He was 9.6-15.3% all the other seasons. His jump to 24.5% last season was a massive anomaly so far....he's at 26.3% so far this season....so that's why I question whether he simple shifted to a different player last year and might continue.
 

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Maybe, but the history isn't here.....perhaps he simply turned a corner last year. Before last season, the highest he's ever been in a full season was 17.7%....he had 19.2% in a shortened season. He was 9.6-15.3% all the other seasons. His jump to 24.5% last season was a massive anomaly so far....he's at 26.3% so far this season....so that's why I question whether he simple shifted to a different player last year and might continue.
He took on a different role last year, playing primarily on the top line with Barkov and a mix of opposite wingers, top pp, and pk. So, it's possible.
 

KingPuckChoo

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Namestnikov is shooting at 30

quite a few jets players are having career years already in their 30s like Namest, Niederr, and Lowry all three should end up with a thousand points each

it's just one of those years for them
 

Czechboy

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Necas is a career 12 and is at 28 right now ... I don't see him sustaining it but sure hope he does.lol
 

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