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Originally Posted by Caged Great
One thing that I have noticed is that the team that is losing the game tends to take more shots in order to try and come back. Usually teams sit on leads, especially when they are up by a goal or two as they don't want to risk things.
That would lead to great corsi results, despite not being very good.
There is no context to reflect this though.
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There absolutely is context though. Head to war-on-ice.com and you can alter the parameters for the stats you're looking at to see how different teams perform in different score situations as well as different strength-situations.
You can break it down by 5v5, Powerplay, shorthanded, 4v4, opposition goalie pulled, and team goalie pulled.
As for score-situations you can see All, Within 1, Leading, Leading by 2+, Leading by 1, Tied, Trailing, Trailing by 2+, Trailing by 1.
For example, over the losing streak, at 5v5, the Flames have had the following Corsi numbers:
All: 51.6%
Within 1: 52.3%
Leading: 41.7%
Leading by 2+: N/A
Leading by 1: 41.7%
Tied: 48.3%
Trailing by 1: 59.4%
Trailing by 2+: 45.8%
Trailing: 56.3%
So, you can see we're generating a lot of shots when we're behind, as is expected. The Trailing by 2 percentage is a little misleading, as the actual difference in Corsi events is only -4. That's the same difference in Corsi events as when we're up by one.
You can go deeper into the numbers if you want, and if you want to disregard them altogether that's fine, but don't say there is no context to reflect score-effects, that's simply wrong.