Currently Flames have a bajillion shots attempted against the Rangers, yet trail 3-1 to them in the 2nd period.
Some can poop on Hartley (which is unfair considering where the franchise was in the rebuild cycle. He overachieved), but he won a Jack Adams award, and got the Flames the furthest the team has been since '04. He got more winning results than Gulutzan has.
This is why all this advance stats crap is fairly insignificant to me. What I care about is end results. The one stat that I feel really defines a team is their goal differential. Flames have been in the red all season long, and is the primary reason they're not going to make the playoffs.
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