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Originally Posted by Arsonist22
Corsi numbers also don't take into account how a player is used. Engelland started 26.9% in the offensive zone and 31.5% in the defensive zone, so it's reasonable to assume that this partially accounts for low corsi numbers.
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Last year, yes. In previous years he has had much easier zone starts - if you look at the aggregate from 2011-2014, he had 31.2% offensive zone, 28.7% defensive zone. In that time his FF% is 49%, and PDO 1007.
All in all not as bad as I originally thought just looking at last year when he was 44.6%.
Also evaluating the usefulness of a stat by saying "HA it doesn't put Crosby first" is pretty baffling. Crosby is good at a lot of things in addition to having good puck possession numbers.