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Originally Posted by Bingo
He delivered on the possession ... as the Flames are 4th in CF% at 52.7% and 4th in scoring chances at HDCF% 54.3%. Those are great numbers.
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I've seen you beating the advanced stats drum like this quite a lot recently, but I haven't seen any convincing evidence that a good Corsi actually translates at all to winning games. Why exactly are these "great numbers"? They have the puck more, fine, but in doing so they give the other team all the time in the world to set up, and moves are slow and methodical and very easy to predict.
"Possession hockey" sounds neat if you have a team of players who can read the ice well and create seams on their own (look at the Lidstrom-era Red Wings as an example). Otherwise it seems to amount to a whole lot of perimeter passing and low-quality shots that get easily picked off and saved. The Flames as they are currently built do not have the tools to play "good" Corsi hockey. Whether you want to pin that on the coach, the GM, or the players themselves is up to you, but the standings will back me up on this. Right now it's like putting gravy on skittles, it's not a good mix.