Well the other problem is that a team can buck the trend for sometime and not have time to fall completely back down to earth or come back down at different rates etc.
So did the Flames not come back down to earth and continued to buck the trend, did the underlying stats change through the year such that they were following the trend or did we need to stretch into the next season to see the regression?
I haven't looked at how the Flames stats progressed through the year last season. If I recall from the infamous "eye test" the Flames were bucking the trend on the back of some strong goaltending and some elevated sh% but as those regressed, the team began to play better to maybe balance out that regression. I'd imagine the advanced stats might say exactly that. Not sure.
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