{"id":108614,"date":"2021-05-18T11:55:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=108614"},"modified":"2021-05-18T11:55:08","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:55:08","slug":"examining-connor-brown-scoring-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/05\/18\/examining-connor-brown-scoring-streak\/","title":{"rendered":"Examining Connor Brown’s Scoring Streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the official Ottawa Senators<\/a> 2021 calendar, the cover athlete for April is Connor Brown<\/a><\/strong>. Whoever made that decision should start buying lottery tickets because they couldn’t have picked a better Senator. Brown scored a goal in eight straight games in April, breaking the franchise record for most goals in consecutive games. Connor Brown<\/a>‘s scoring streak continued into May; he scored 15 goals in the Senators’ final 21 games, scoring the sixth-most goals in the league over that span. He finished the season with a personal-best 21 goals.<\/p>\n

Brown is a decent goal scorer, but not a great one. He has 76 goals in 375 games. What has led to the best goal-scoring stretch of his career?\u00a0 It is a combination of his strong wrist shot, his ability to get open in front of the net, and strong defensive play.<\/p>\n

Connor Brown’s Scoring Streak<\/h2>\n

Before April, Connor Brown was producing a good amount of offence. When he was on the ice, the Senators were expected to score 21.92 goals, and they scored a bit more with 25. What separated him in the Spring was the number of scoring chances Ottawa created when he was on the ice. Before April, Brown’s line would generate 6.7 scoring chances per game. From March 25 onwards that number jumped to 8.10. Nearly every shot the Senators took with Brown on the ice was a scoring chance. He converted on them. Ottawa was expected to score 18.62 goals with Brown but actually scored 28, and 15 of them he scored himself.<\/p>\n

Let’s look at the video and see how Brown turned those scoring chances into goals.<\/p>\n

Brown’s Wrist Shot<\/h3>\n

Connor Brown has an excellent wrist shot. It’s hard and fast and surprises goaltenders. Brown scored using the wrist shot three times in April, and each goal was against a western Canadian goaltender. Those goalies don’t usually see a lot of Brown, who has played his entire career in the East, so his shot catches them off guard.<\/p>\n

Here’s a goal<\/a> Brown scored on Connor Hellebuyck<\/a><\/strong> of the Winnipeg Jets<\/a> on April 12. The speed of his shot makes Hellebuyck unable to track it perfectly. He gets his glove on it, but the puck hits the wrist protector and goes in.<\/p>\n