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Originally Posted by Quincy Egg
Calgary has one of the highest OSh%'s in the league. They are simply getting scoring at opportune times despite getting trounced in corsi-events. Colorado and the Leafs did it with good goaltending, the Flames are doing it with an aberrative shooting %.
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Really, that shooting percentage doesn't take into account key scoring positions on the ice, something that the Flames are very good at getting into, they don't do a lot of shooting from outside positions because again, most of their chamces come off of the rush or into the slot.
Personally again, this is you looking at one stat, putting it into the most convenient model and harping unsustainable.
Again, I see a value in stats but I have a problem with them because they make the assumption that every team plays the same way and every player by position has to play the same way to be successful.
Stat tracking works well in baseball because baseball is a very linear game, you could argue it works well in football, because football is a pretty linear game.
Hockey has a massive degree of randomness and differences from team to team and player to player that makes it impossible to use stats as your primary indicator that a team is successful or not or over achieving.
Look at the failure in Edmonton where they had a coach and GM that I believe were overly obsessed with using stats to evaluate their team and their players and set their future course.
I believe that Russell had a pretty poor advanced Stat line in last nights game, but frankly I would take that kind of performance with that poor stat line every single time, over someone that has good possession numbers for example but achieves nothing on the night because he's floating around the perimeter on the forecheck.