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belsarius · 12-14-2017, 02:46 PM

Thanks for all the work and these charts Bingo!

I would suspect that Hartley's playoff year looked a lot like LAs chart right now. A lot of scoring and some luck, but underlying it just didn't have the type of play that would indicate future success. A lot of pundits were saying I told you so the next year.

I don't think advanced stats are as accurate in hockey as in baseball, but as a starting point to show underlying play and trends I think they have been proven as pretty accurate indicators. That doesn't mean they are always right, there are always outliers, but it makes a pretty good case for the Flames to be doing everything in the right direction.

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belsarius First Line Centre Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Cranbrook Exp:	Thanks for all the work and these charts Bingo! I would suspect that Hartley's playoff year looked a lot like LAs chart right now. A lot of scoring and some luck, but underlying it just didn't have the type of play that would indicate future success. A lot of pundits were saying I told you so the next year. I don't think advanced stats are as accurate in hockey as in baseball, but as a starting point to show underlying play and trends I think they have been proven as pretty accurate indicators. That doesn't mean they are always right, there are always outliers, but it makes a pretty good case for the Flames to be doing everything in the right direction. __________________ @PR_NHL The @NHLFlames are the first team to feature four players each with 50+ points within their first 45 games of a season since the Penguins in 1995-96 (Ron Francis, Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr, Tomas Sandstrom). Fuzz - "He didn't speak to the media before the election, either." Last edited by belsarius; 12-14-2017 at 02:59 PM.