What were our stats like after January 25th of last year for the rest of the season?
If the season started then we would have made the playoffs last year. We've just continued playing well since then. Cammy got hot after the trade deadline and our goaltending was Ramo and Ortio.
It's easy to say it's unsustainable, but the line-up has changed by about 30% and our defence and goaltending is arguably better. The fact of the matter is that we've been playing better much longer than people think so perhaps we should be able to keep it going.
As far as advanced stats goes, and I'll admit I don't know much about hockey stats but I do know something about statistics, and I just think there's way too many variables in every hockey game to make some stats meaningful with a high degree of correlation.
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