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Originally Posted by fredr123
I'm not sold on the quality of scoring chances making a big difference. In the long run, I think it probably evens out. I feel like for every "Grade AAA" chance you see the Flames give up, there's probably just as many softies. Seems like you hear a few times a game that the 'tender would "probably like that one back." Over 82 games it's probably a wash. Over the 28 or so we've had so far this season, it may look skewed in one direction or the other.
Not to mention the fact that judging the quality of a scoring chance is so friggin' subjective it makes whatever data you do collect almost meaningless. Heck, official NHL stats like hits and even shots on goal vary dramatically from one building to the next.
There is a loose collection of unassociated bloggers around the internet that have taken it upon themselves to track scoring chances (much like the spreadsheet linked to above). They all use a relatively standardized definition of a scoring chance to take most of the subjectivity out of it, but you will sometimes see two bloggers disagree over the number of chances when they're both watching the same game.
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I think scoring chances are subjective but goals like in the Dallas game where Morrow is left wide open 3 feet in front of the net twice seems like a fairly obvious easy scoring chance. Consistently leaving guys wide open between the hash marks like in the Dallas and Kings games also seem like easy scoring chances.
Paralex can bury his head in the sand all he wants but the Flames defensemen leave guys wide open in scoring areas way too often and more than I have seen from a team this year or Flames teams the last 4-5 years. I don't have any stats because nobody tracks it but it is fairly obvious if watching this team versus others.