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Winnipeg Jets Missed Shots Players by Player Breakdown

We all know missed shots have been an issue for the Winnipeg Jets this year, but we don't know who the biggest offenders are. Well, we do now.

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Marianne Helm

Much has been made of the Winnipeg Jets propensity to miss the net when they shoot. We all know the Jets lead the league in missed shots, but how does it break down player by player?Lets take a look at who has missed the most shots as a percentage of shot attempts.

Here is the player by player breakdown of missed shots for this season:

Player MsS Shots G S% Fenwick Miss % Fenwick SH%
1 Zach Bogosian 7 4 0 0 11 63.6% 0.0%
2 Tobias Enstrom 9 9 2 22 18 50.0% 11.1%
3 Paul Postma 17 19 1 5.3 36 47.2% 2.8%
4 Mark Stuart 13 19 1 5.3 32 40.6% 3.1%
5 Andrew Ladd 22 34 8 24 56 39.3% 14.3%
6 Grant Clitsome 8 13 1 7.7 21 38.1% 4.8%
7 James Wright 6 10 0 0 16 37.5% 0.0%
8 Ron Hainsey 10 17 0 0 27 37.0% 0.0%
9 Evander Kane 32 56 4 7.1 88 36.4% 4.5%
10 Mark Scheifele 3 6 0 0 9 33.3% 0.0%
11 Zach Redmond 6 13 1 7.7 19 31.6% 5.3%
12 Dustin Byfuglien 13 31 3 9.7 44 29.5% 6.8%
13 Alexander Burmistrov 10 24 2 8.3 34 29.4% 5.9%
14 Olli Jokinen 14 34 2 5.9 48 29.2% 4.2%
15 Blake Wheeler 17 42 4 9.5 59 28.8% 6.8%
16 Chris Thorburn 2 5 1 20 7 28.6% 14.3%
17 Jim Slater 5 15 1 6.7 20 25.0% 5.0%
18 Kyle Wellwood 4 13 0 0 17 23.5% 0.0%
19 Eric Tangradi 3 10 0 0 13 23.1% 0.0%
20 Bryan Little 8 28 3 11 36 22.2% 8.3%
21 Nik Antropov 4 14 1 7.1 18 22.2% 5.6%
22 Anthony Peluso 0 1 0 0 1 0.0% 0.0%

Thoughts:

These numbers aren't really that telling after such a small sample of games.

It does make sense that defensemen would have a higher missed shot percentage as they often shoot from far away. It is also worth noting that a few of the Jets D men shoot wide on purpose hoping for a bounce off the end boards. I know Toby and Bogo do it fairly often.

Captain Andrew Ladd on the other hand has no such excuse. Whether this is a trend we will learn later.

Big Buff on Redmond on the other hand have done a good job or getting their pucks on net for D men.

Bryan Little has recieved a lot of flack for missing the net, but it looks like those were probably memorable occurances father than frequent.

It is little surprised that reserved shooters like Little and Wellwood don't miss the net a lot. They tend to shoot when they think they are going to score.

As always, numbers are useless without context, so lets take a look at last year's numbers:

Player MsS Shots G S% Fenwick Miss % Fenwick SH%
1 Randy Jones 19 24 1 4.2 43 44.2% 2.3%
2 Mark Flood 20 30 3 10 50 40.0% 6.0%
3 Mark Stuart 40 60 3 5 100 40.0% 3.0%
4 Mark Scheifele 3 5 1 20 8 37.5% 12.5%
5 Zach Bogosian 89 150 5 3.3 239 37.2% 2.1%
6 Dustin Byfuglien 128 223 12 5.4 351 36.5% 3.4%
7 Ron Hainsey 31 57 0 0 88 35.2% 0.0%
8 Aaron Gagnon 3 6 0 0 9 33.3% 0.0%
9 Grant Clitsome 43 87 4 4.6 130 33.1% 3.1%
10 Blake Wheeler 102 208 17 8.2 310 32.9% 5.5%
11 Nik Antropov 46 95 15 15.8 141 32.6% 10.6%
12 Alexander Burmistrov 57 123 13 10.6 180 31.7% 7.2%
13 Kyle Wellwood 37 93 18 19.4 130 28.5% 13.8%
14 Chris Thorburn 27 69 4 5.8 96 28.1% 4.2%
15 Bryan Little 63 162 24 14.8 225 28.0% 10.7%
16 Arturs Kulda 3 8 0 0 11 27.3% 0.0%
17 Tobias Enstrom 34 94 6 6.4 128 26.6% 4.7%
18 Antti Miettinen 20 58 5 8.6 78 25.6% 6.4%
19 Evander Kane 98 287 30 10.5 385 25.5% 7.8%
20 Spencer Machacek 4 12 2 16.7 16 25.0% 12.5%
21 Jim Slater 39 118 13 11 157 24.8% 8.3%
22 Andrew Ladd 86 265 28 10.6 351 24.5% 8.0%
23 Eric Fehr 17 54 2 3.7 71 23.9% 2.8%
24 Tim Stapleton 23 74 11 14.9 97 23.7% 11.3%
25 Carl Klingberg 2 7 0 0 9 22.2% 0.0%
26 Tanner Glass 24 86 5 5.8 110 21.8% 4.5%
27 Patrice Cormier 1 8 0 0 9 11.1% 0.0%
28 Ben Maxwell 1 10 1 10 11 9.1% 9.1%
29 Jason Jaffray 0 10 0 0 10 0.0% 0.0%
30 Kenndal McArdle 0 3 0 0 3 0.0% 0.0%

Thoughts:

Andrew Ladd was among the Jets best shooters last year, both he and Kane are well off last year's pace. Hopefully these guys can can get their shot together. They are the Jets two biggest snipers so the team needs them to hit the net.

You will notice that I also included a Fenwick shooting percentage on both tables. There are lots of low numbers and zeros on the Jets current chart. If the team can get a few bounces and some scoring from their depth players it will go a long way towards ending their goal scoring woes.

If you want a team by team look at missed shots percentage, you can check out yesterday's post here.