Resolute: that is a very illustrative chart. But I have one question for Yost: why did he use Corsi instead of Fenwick? Answer (almost certainly) is that Corsi fits his narrative better. A far more useful chart for the Flames would be Fenwick (though all the other short-comings remain).
For those that don't know, the difference between Corsi and Fenwick is that Corsi includes blocked shots and Fenwick doesn't. For a team like the Flames, that plays defense by collapsing and blocking a lot of shots, including them is misleading at best.
Yost chose Corsi because he has an agenda. Scientists/analysts do not try to fit data to their narrative. Stats are supposed to be a tool to explain what is happening. If Yost were the analyst he is pretending to be, he would have compared the two because the difference explains part of the Flames' situation.
But why let the facts get in the way of a good narrative?
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