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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
I think you are assuming malice where it doesn't exist. Yost does make some silly points in the article, but the thrust of his article was not to trash the Flames. Rather, he was trying to explain them. As to why he chose Corsi, I would suspect it is simply because that stat is the far more commonly used of the two.
I haven't seen a similar chart for Fenwick, but in comparison to last year's Leafs and Avs, our Fenwick doesn't change much relative to our Corsi.
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Ok, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say that Corsi is simply more common.
That doesn't excuse him from the simple and obvious step of analysing blocked shots as an aspect of the Flames' game strategy that would need to be considered in even the most rudimentary analysis of their possession numbers.