Snoop Dogg HC end the win streak with a 24-12 shot edge

The surface reading is simple: a 12-game win streak ends, a 4-0 loss to Snoop Dogg HC goes down as an upset, and everyone moves on. Moving on is fine. The record is 71-18-9, and a single blank game does not change it. The numbers underneath it are harder to shrug off.

Credit first where it is due. Silky set a career high in 6s with 16 hits. His 6s average as a forward is 3.8. The club threw 31 hits in total, an unusually high count. Physically, the Boogeymen did their part.

The key ratio runs the other way. Snoop Dogg HC took 24 shots to the club's 12, an unusually high count against and an unusually low count for. In 6s the club averages 18.7 shots and allows 12.8. Time on attack fell to 380 seconds against a baseline of 566.7. It was also the first time in 8 games that the Boogeymen had less attack time than the opponent.

What is real here is the shot gap and the attack time. The hits were real too, but 31 of them did not turn into shots. Silky had 1 shot against an average of 4.6, a quiet game from a forward with a long record, and against that record it reads as noise. Joey Flopfish's 27-game point streak also ended. The 27 games inside it still count.

So the shrug is right for the result. The 24-12 shot count and the 380 seconds of attack time are the part of this game that deserves a closer look, whatever the streak was before it.