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Originally Posted by Frequitude
I haven't run any numbers along with watching games with a stopwatch, but my gut tells me those two effects net off and make shots attempted a pretty good proxy for possession across various styles of play.
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This was done by JP Nikota at Pension Plan Puppets.
Measured the Leafs attack time with a stopwatch (only at tied situations, for some reason) and compared it to corsi%. Small sample size (twenty something games in tied situations), but looks like a pretty good surrogate.