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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Teams that outshoot their opponents are usually the better team. Teams that have possession of the puck more are usually the better team. Is there a large group of people who debate this?
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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
Well, there's the management team of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Do they, though? This would suggest that the Maple Leafs have been deliberately constructed based on a foil of Fenwick and corsi numbers; that Toronto's management has built a team which attempts to avoid pick possession as a means to win, and that is quite frankly preposterous.
The fact that you make this point though (tongue in cheek as it may be) actually illustrates something that many of us have been arguing with regards to so-called advanced statistics. And that is that teams do not (and more appropriately should not) prioritise them as a tool for assembling their roster. In other words, we all recognise that the Toronto Maple Leafs presently enjoy an unsustainable level of puck possession time that shows they are a bubble playoff team. If they want to improve, it will not come by way of inserting players with great corsi or Fenwick ratings, but rather, by way of better, more skilled players. It's not difficult. It is surely something that even Maple Leafs management recognises and is willing to correct, it is just difficult to do, since great players are a rare and priceless commodity.