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Originally Posted by New Era
It is a well known, and long standing joke around the league, that a lot of stats are interpreted differently from arena to arena. That's all that needs to be said on the subject, because everyone in the game knows that certain teams cook the books. No attempt to discredit, the statisticians do it themselves. I am very interested to know how you know shots are meticulously tracked? Unless you are watching every game and are auditing the shot trackers you have no idea how accurate they are. Again, Boston is infamous for pumping up the shots for. Other buildings are generous in the hits department while others hardly give any. It is interpretation of what constitutes a given stat that is sorely lacking and which brings all of these measures into question. But I'm not changing your mind, so we'll leave it at that.
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No that's not all that needs to be said on the topic. You haven't provided any proof beyond "it's well established." Oh yeah, by whom?
Beyond that nitpicking point your arguments are still mired in base-level statistical illiteracy.
As opendoor has said, almost every team is using these stats now. The Canucks certainly do, and I'm betting the Flames are as well because they provide much more insight than the traditional statistics.
You can choose to be ignorant of them but you can't choose to actually credibly criticize them at least not by what you've brought to the table already.