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Originally Posted by Tinordi
It's not that simple. Infact there are few blueprints for ways for GMs to improve their possession. Do you go out and acquire high corsi-rel players? Maybe. But it doesn't appear like that's been the strategy employed in Edmonton. Tyler Dellow probably would have been the first guy to ask why they only had 2 NHL centers? That will impact team performance way more than their corsi score.
It's cherry picking to say that this team prioritized 'corsi' and this team is team is now failing therefore corsi is no good.
What these inquiries do is build insight in the game and probabilities related to success. You're taking an anti-statistical view using one anecdote in a larger panoply of analysis.
Anyway, back to the article. Great stuff. We're riding a great shooting percentage. Sometimes that's luck, that's confidence, swagger, coaching. But it really tends to not sustain itself over the long term. Toronto also had really good shooting percentages when they went to the playoffs two years ago. It's since fallen back to the average. Back then, Leafs fans would argue until they were blue in the face that the high percentage was from coaching and skill Similar to where we are now as Flames fans.
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Leafs shooting percentage:
2014-15 - 4th in the league - 11%
2013-14 - 6th in the league - 9.69%
2012-13 - 1st in the league - 11.47%
2011-12 - 6th in the league - 9.78%
Looks to me like it is a skill they have.