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Originally Posted by DJones
In basketball when teams have high percentages it is considered skill,
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Even with our high PDO (100.9 or 6th best in the league including playoffs) at 5 vs 5, the Flames scored 49% of the goals(20th best in the league). So on average, we were out-goal-scored at 5 vs 5. Even with their average PDO (100.2 or 15th best), the Kings out-goal-scored teams at 5 vs 5 (55.0%, or 4th best in the league).
Playoff hockey is mostly 5 vs 5, there's no 4 on 4 overtime and as we learned the hard way you don't quite get the power plays as favorably as you hope. If they were not terrible at 4 vs 4 (20.0% Goals for percnetage) and shootouts, the Kings would have made the playoffs and been a cup favorite.
If you want to compare that to basketball, it's like getting hammered on rebounds but making your threes. Eventually the team that got 20 more shots tends to have an edge even in basketball. It's no different... efficiency has its place but so does opportunity. The Flames did not give themselves much opportunity to outscore the other team unless it was special scenarios like drawing powerplays, not taking penalties, and pulling Hiller/Ramo.