An important quote from the article, from the perspective of the Flames.
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If you go to sportingcharts.com, you’ll find the PDO generated by each team in each season since 1990. Of those 642 teams, only a dozen posted a regular season PDO of 103.0 or better, the best of which was 103.7.
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Calgary currently has a PDO of exactly 103.
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Assuming half of the last 23 Stanley Cup winners weren’t simply lucky, a PDO above 101 clearly is sustainable.
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If Calgary's shooting percentage slipped by 2%, bringing us from 2nd in the league, to 10th, giving us that sustainable PDO of 101, we'd drop from 87 goals scored to 66 goals scored, which would take us from +18 to -3 in goals for.
Edit: Hang on ... NHL.com has two different totals for how many goals we've scored this year. The
standings page gives us 87 scored, but the
Goals For stats page says 84.