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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
The problem with this analysis is
- That was not a full 82 game season for the Oil to regress back to Oil ways... even this year's Oilers saw themselves in a playoff spot in December. Not only that, Hall + Hopkins + Eberle + Schultz had spent much of the season in the AHL and they were the only team that year in mid season form while other teams were using much of regular season as training camp.
- The 2012-13 Oilers were still a very poor corsi team. Their increased goal scoring correlated with their best shooting percentages. That sounds exactly like what Hartley was selling and what Treliving fired Hartley for.
- The "only" year that was better on the PP happened to be the year directly prior, suggesting Kreuger did nothing to really influence the PP positively - he just kept it from falling apart.
- Devan Dubnyk had a fantastic year. He happens to be a pretty damn good goalie. Goalies are great at influencing goals against.
- PK% was good - but is also a wildly inconsistent stat that varies from top 10 to bottom 10 for many a team from year to year. And again, back to the reduced sample size.
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when you use corsi as a main point, I am not even going to weaste time reading the rest because after that i just expect something else stupid like +/- to be used