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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
Except that the "we keep them to the outside" is hogwash when you look at where the shots actually come from:
Sure they get more of their own shots from in tight, but their goalies face 30% more shots than league average from in tight |
When you these stats to try prove a point you need to go back to the base stats and see how well they reflect what actually happens on the ice,
On the last Game winning goal by the Flames Monahan was listed in NHL.com play-by-play as scoring on an 11 ft wrist shot when the replay shows it being a 3 footer from just off the crease.
When the official stats are that wrong on a game winning goal you have to think that they might be out by more than a couple feet on a nondescript SOG.
I took a lot of flack about the variability and lack of consistency of Hits stats.... I think that Hits stats would be at least as reliable as SOG and save stats.