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Interesting post. A couple of things come to mind for me:
- First off, I'd say that the way EA NHL does it is more correct in terms of actually executing these shots IRL. I was at the rink yesterday doing a sticks and pucks (or "stick-time for you CA people) session to work specifically on my 3 shot types and it's way quicker/easier to take a quick snapshot than taking a fully loaded wrister. You hold the puck out to your strong side, lean on your inside foot, and snap. In comparison, like in the game, a wrist shot requires you to sweep the puck along the ice for longer and involves weight transfer from your back foot to your front foot. I think the game replicates this fairly well.
- How does the NHL website track these shots? I find it hard to believe that players in the modern NHL are taking full-on wrist shots more often than quick snappers. That said, more and more players have been adopting the Auston Matthews "toe-drag release" shot which is like a hybrid between a snapshot and a wrist shot so if they count those as wrist shots then I guess that could be a reason for the stats being the way they are.
I wonder if next year's game will implement a way to do the "Bedard/Matthews" shot in all it's glory. You can doe toe-drag shots now but they're not exactly the same as what these dudes are doing in the show. Anyway, those are my thoughts.
Your first point is actually pretty good - something I failed to consider when writing this post, and I'm a former hockey player myself. The controls definitely make sense, it just leaves me wondering how there's such a difference. Snap is the most common in EA NHL, wrist is allegedly the most common irl.
There's also, of course, scorekeeper error. These shots are tracked by scorekeepers in the arenas, and they're human just like the rest of us. They miss a lot of things - the first game I ever manually shot tracked (as a personal project, I did shot tracking on a spreadsheet for CGY @ NJD in the 2021-22 season), the scorekeepers missed a high danger shot on goal for CGY (that NJD's goalie, Nico Daws, saved) in the first 90 seconds of the game. I'll have to watch a game closely tonight to deduce if it's something they're potentially frequently doing wrong.
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