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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Put another way, if asked, "if I want my team to make the playoffs, what should they be good at", the person who understands analytics will say, "it's no guarantee, but the best thing would be for them to be good at possessing the puck". Your response appears to be, "make them good at scoring more goals than the other guys". That's completely unhelpful.
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Which explains why mudcrutch became the buttmonkey of the site by penning a treatise called "the value of outscoring: a primer". It was completely unhelpful.
That said, I agree with your premise. "Score more goals than the other guys" is the outcome, not the process. Being a strong possession team is one method that could lead to that outcome. So too is having the world's best goaltender.