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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
If the stat guys said that the 2003-04 Flames success was unsustainable based on stats, then point taken, but I don't recall any discussion of that 10 years ago. My recollection is that they were saying that based on the eye test, but if you have a link I would certainly like to see it.
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The discussions that I heard weren't based on what are now called advanced stats; they were based on plain old-fashioned shots for and against. I can't link to them, because most of what I saw and heard was on live radio and TV. I don't know if anyone even has archives of those broadcasts online, and they certainly don't have transcripts, which makes searching for them pretty nearly impossible.
In any case, an argument based on Corsi or Fenwick is essentially similar to an argument based on SOG. Both are vulnerable if the team makes a deliberate strategy of not trying to prevent perimeter shots, as the '03-04 Flames did.