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The MVP Machine & MacKinnon's Shot
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The MVP Machine & MacKinnon's Shot

How the Avs' star made his own luck

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Jack Han
Jul 26, 2020
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In 2013-14 Nathan MacKinnon won Rookie of the Year as a 19 year old, scoring 24 goals on 241 shots (10.0%).

It was an above-average conversion rate to be sure, but not an astronomically high one, especially for a forward of his caliber.

Yet the next three years the center fell into an extended shooting slump, scoring on only 7.3%, 8.6% and 6.4% of his on…

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