[CaptainCrunch]

I think that sometimes Advanced Stats are designed for people that need to feel better about themselves and don't take the time to actually watch a hockey game.

Yeah its great when your talking about possession times and PDO, but I have yet to see someone come up with a quality of shot taken, quality of shots allowed stat, or mean passes before a shot.

If a team is getting outshot like the team up north and the shots are coming from key scoring areas, and teams are getting it off of the forecheck because the defense runs around a lot then you would have an argument.

Even the svpct is invalid because it dosen't take into account things like rebounds allowed for goals or good goals versus bad goals.

But its easy to sit back with a spreadsheet and mutter, they're no good without ever watching a game or ever actually thinking about it.

Stats are not a substitute for the real thing.