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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This isn't what I said. That may have come across as a false dilemma but it wasn't my intention.
My point is that you can enjoy watching hockey without giving a god damn whether your team is being outshot, outhit, outpossessed, or anything else, and just have fun watching the good things they do, getting pumped for wins and frustrated for losses and cheering them on without ever considering a single number besides, I guess, the score.
You can also enjoy hockey by meticulously obsessing over these details to a borderline crazy degree, watch each breakout ten times to determine what seems to produce controlled zone entries, then track the controlled zone entries and try to figure out how those are generally best transitioned into scoring chances, while mapping out shot locations for your team, etc etc etc.
Both are legitimate ways to enjoy watching hockey, and yes, there's plenty in between. The article Haynes is writing seems to me to dismiss the second as a legitimate way to enjoy the sport. At the end of the day it's guys on ice knocking a rubber disc around with sticks; get enjoyment out of it however you like.
It seems like certain members of one group or the other take the view that the other type of fan is somehow a worse hockey fan, and then everyone just generalizes about "corsi people" or the "watch the games" crowd. Realistically, the phrase "worse hockey fan" doesn't make any sense <insert Oilers / Canucks / Leafs fan joke at your leisure>.
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My read of Pro-Corsi writings is that they don't actually take shot locations and zone possession or rushes into account, and simply state more shots towards the net means you're better. That is the issue I have, as sure you can take 100 shots from the boards, and have great Corsi, or you can control the puck, pass it around and wait for a quality shot, and have a low Corsi, but score. Advanced stats don't seem to take the latter into account and rely on the former as gospel.