[Caged Great]

If you could track players like they did during the all star weekend, you would be better able to determine who is responsible for good plays/bad plays and who does things efficiently.

Shots for/against are not equal and it is too simplistic.

Calgary also doesn't play like any other team, where most of the offense is driven by the defensemen rather than the forward group. Because of the excellent quality of the passing by the defenders, it catches the other teams off guard because the Flames do play differently. That leads to more goals simply because of the quickness of the swapping from defense to offense. There is no metric for that.

Other teams that had poor corsi/fenwick numbers that collapsed were getting otherworldly goaltending. Calgary is not. Steady NHL average goaltending only from both Ramo and Hiller. The Avs lost their 2nd line C (Stastny) and replaced him with slower players (Iginla/Briere). Add that to a step back from Varlamov and it's not surprising that they are playing poorly. Carey Price though is continuing to be the best goalie in the NHL and the Canadiens are riding his coattails despite not being a very good team beyond him.