Nothing like the clown college of Edmonton media to verify that small sample sizes ARE reflective of the whole.
http://edmontonjournal.com/sports/ho...ll-whole-story
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I’ve cautioned many who claim Corsi or Fenwick is an accurate stat to evaluate an individual. I believe they are better served to look at evalutating a team, but when you try solely use them to isolate an individual’s talent or contributions, the results can be misleading.
Russell naysayers felt because Calgary was bad at generating and allowing shots when he was on the ice and he was the main culprit. It can be a very misleading premise, because those stats rely heavily on what the other four skaters on your team are doing. Much like plus-minus can be misleading, so, too, can trying to evaluate a player using only one statistic.
The system a team plays is a major factor, and in Edmonton the Oilers’ attacking, aggressive style in the defensive zone plays to Russell’s strengths. His best attributes are his speed, puck handling and passing and early this season he is succeeding in this system and not being in positions where he has to block a lot of shots.
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@Kent_WilsonKris Russell’s PDO so far is a team high 107.5. His corsi is a second last 47.7. Anyone crowing about him after 4 games is in for a surprise
@Kent_WilsonRelated - I hope the Oilers re-sign Russell to a long deal based on a short term PDO spike.
PDO essentially being metric of luck (5v5 save % divided by 5v5 shooting percentage) and how skewed the "eye test" can be with limited viewings. Russel's numbers still are far from great. But Oilers are going to Oil.