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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Chicago, Nashville and the Islanders lead the league in shot attempts. And they win lots.
When you get down to it, the Flames and Oilers are extremes on the same scale. Edmonton took lots of shots, but a lack of talent hampers them. Calgary doesn't take many, but we have ridiculous things happening like Lance Bouma scoring 16 and Josh Jooris 12, on top of our skill guys easily exceeding previous career highs.
So why does it work this year where it didn't last year?
Our shooting success is almost certain to regress next year. Hopefully another year of experience and growth will allow it to be smoothed out by possessing the puck more often.
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I would say from Van game on, it worked well.
Monahan is much, much better, Johnny replaced Cammi easily, Bauma hitting his prime, improved 3rd and 4th line. Young players hungry coming in and good for short stretches. Wideman having a great year, continued improvement of Rusell, Brodie stepping up, Giordano's Noris like 61 games, better goaltending, and another 20 or so little stories why we are winning.
If something is done over and over and works then it isn't luck.
As for Oilers love to hear lack of talent in reference to the Oil as opposed to Flames. Kind of funny....
What makes the Flames different from oil and there is the usual, heart, determination, coaching etc., but what really makes us different is that our d-men can move the puck and join the rush. Skill on backend of our top 4 guys is excellent.
Had we gone the big, tough pylon way on the back end this team would be a disaster.
As is, it has been a great year. A few years ago nobody would be bringing up the corsi stuff over and over and we could all just enjoy the story of a little team with heart.
Of course it is 2015 and the analytic community for the first time is being somewhat respected, they have hit the primetime.
Flame success goes against their numbers and thus threatens the newly found respectability and therefore, Flames have to be "destroyed and stopped".
If the analytics guys were less insecure, they wouldn't be crying about Flames success.
BTW, statistics exist so we can quantify the highs and lows and find the middle and deviation, but without those highs and lows there would be no need for statistics, all in all we don't need statistics to enjoy hockey, so who cares about analytics.