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Originally Posted by Bingo
The ditch to ditch mentality on this site just kills me some days.
It's not a useless stat, I like to know when players are on the ice for goals against then goals for.
However it's not the best stat available anymore because it doesn't take into account save percentage or shooting percentage of the players on the ice. You can get outplayed often but for whatever reason get lucky with your goaltender bailing you out and have a decent plus minus.
If that player has a bad corsi number you wonder, but even that in the Kris Russell defense could mean they are weak shots.
Then you go to scoring chances, where it's pretty hard to hide. If you get owned in scoring chance splits you have to be at least part of the problem.
Backlund is consistently top five on the team in CF% and HDCF% splits.
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Except that Corsi and Fenwick are all flawed statistics because data collection is not consistent. If there was some consistency in the way the data was collected I would buy into their use. But when the method varies from barn to barn, the results are highly questionable, and the outcomes don't meet what the stats say, they become more noise to be filtered than useful data. You can use all the ridiculous stats you want to defend player A over player B, like Oiler fans have done for years, but the bottom line is who scores more than they give up. You know, kind of like how hockey games are decided. Frankly, that is the only stat that matters to me. I want guys that outscore the opposition, fancy stats be damned.