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Shot "Efficiency" in NHL hockey

This isn't really original, or even half-clever. It's a cruder, stupider variant of a clever idea called shot quality.

But here goes.

While I was trying to avoid watching the OT tonight, I did this:

If you don't need many shots to score a goal, we'll call that "shot efficiency." Other analysts refer to it (or related measures) as "shot quality."

How many shots does a team have to take to score a goal? Here's the

numbers for 2008/09 so far.

First number is team rank (by point percentage, so it accounts for games in hand, OTL, etc.; when all teams have played all their games, point percentage ranking is the same as their final standings ranking).