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Originally Posted by Textcritic
That's not how I read those numbers. If you are giving the puck away twice as often as you are taking it back, that probably means you have the puck most of the time to begin with.
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Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan
That's a pretty weird way to look at it. Yes, you have to actually possess the puck in order to give it away, but how long are you holding onto it before giving it up, and how long does it take to get it back...if you ever do end up getting it back?
Turning the puck over twice as many times as you take it away is basically committing double the unforced errors as you force from the other team. That's never good.
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It's an interesting discussion, and one that doesn't have the stats to demonstrate it definitively one way or the other right now. Perhaps when the puck tracking and camera technology gets to the point where a team's actual time of possession can be tracked, we'll know for sure. But for now, you can take the perspective that the Flames possess the puck more because of the turnover count. Possession proxies such as SAT% suggest the Flames do not possess the pucks as much as their opponents. Total shot blocks by the Flames (and missed shots by their opponents) would also suggest that they don't possess the puck as much as their opponents.