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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Yeah, but that's trying to find technicalities. We're far, far away from technicalities. Good teams beat most of those criteria at a reliable rate. Bad teams fail to meet most of those criteria by pretty big margins. We are:
47.2% CF
48% FF
29th ranked PP
We're far away in all three and goaltending won't fix any of them.
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"Pretty big margins"? You're talking about a couple of percentage points in the duration of play at even strength. This only amounts to a handful of shot attempts for+against/game in the course of probably little more than 60 seconds of actual game time.
That's hardly much of a difference at all. You know, about a decade ago hockey statisticians used to champion the correlation between face-off percentages and playoff success, and yet now this tends to be dismissed as fairly meaningless. I suspect the same will be true for the current model of possession metrics in the course of the next decade, and for similar reasons.