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Originally Posted by New Era
Are they? Are they really outplaying teams, or does the fancy stats tell you that they are? What I see is a team that spends a lot of time in the offensive zone and generates a lot of low quality shots and chooses stupid time to take shots. They pass up way too many quality scoring opportunities in favor of making an extra pass resulting in just more cycle or time in the zone battling for possession. Sure, they puck is in the one end of the ice more, but does that really mean they are outplaying the other team? Is it not possible the other team is taking exactly what the Flames system gives them and they are just playing us better on the defensive side of the puck? The Oilers under Eakins followed a similar flawed strategy and it achieved poor results as well. Could it be that other teams recognize what the Flames are going to do, and they allow them to take all these low percentage shots knowing they won't turn into much?
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Dallas Eakins' Oilers were ranked 28th in shot attempt differential and 25th in scoring chance splits.
I'm sure most teams follow the same strategy of trying to out play the other team, but he wasn't any where near what the Flames are doing in pulling that off.
If you don't like fancy stats you can ignore them, but they're not all that fancy.
More shot attempts ... good
More shot attempts closer to the net ... good
I can't imagine coaching against those philosophies.