Is The Minnesota Wild's Low ES Sh% A Result Of Inaccurate Shooting?

I decided to look into this and see if the numbers reveal anything about the Wild' shooting accuracy. I couldn't find any good database that breaks down shot attempts into goals, shots on goal and missed shots at a team level, so I took each team's Fenwick For (goals + shots on goal + missed shots) total and subtracted the goals and shots on goal to leave me with the total "missed shots".

In the following tables I have listed every NHL team with the amount of games they have played, their total number of Fenwick events, the type of event and the percentage of the total Fenwick For number that event makes-up. The chart is arranged by the percentage of Fenwick events, highest to lowest.

-I have compiled the data into 3 tables; one for goals, one for shots saved and one for missed shots:

The Wild are middle-of-the-pack in terms of percentage of Fenwick for attempts saved, with 67.153%, 16th overall.

The above table shows that the Wild had the 8th highest percentage of missed shots, with off-target attempts accounting for 30.230% of their total Fenwick events for.

-Here are those numbers illustrated in a pie chart, along with a separate chart showing the league average percentages:

-Here are the differences shown more clearly:

As you can see from the graphs above, the Wild aren't too far from the mean in all statistics. They're just below the average goals scored, and slightly above the average shots saved and shots missed.

-To get a better idea of the effect of missing a lot of shots, here are the top 10 teams in % of Missed Shots, plus the Wild, with their position in the league standings, FenClose% and Sh% . This should give an idea of how missing shots relates to success:

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