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Originally Posted by Toonage
Listening to the Fan 960 right now and I'm a little miffed. The suggestion this morning is more or less, "is this team full of idiots" brought forward by the way they play at home and their breakdown when it comes to simple system play.
My thoughts:
1) This isn't a team full of morons who can't play basic hockey, but there is obviously a gap between the coaches and the players as to what is expected
2) They say the coach is just as confused as anyone why the team doesn't play well at home. Too bad. That's the coaches job to figure this out.
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It is an interesting one.
Looking at some of the underlying stats in all scenarios (ES / PP / PK) and a big problem at home is they aren't getting saves and the puck just won't go in. The underlying numbers are pretty consistent and it's only shooting percentage and save percentage that have wild swings.
Home
GF: 91 (27TH)
GA: 106 (26TH)
Shots For: 34.6 (5TH)
Shots Against: 29.6 (8TH)
Shooting %: 7.65% (29TH)
Save %: .895 (30TH)
Corsi For: 67.54 (2ND)
Corsi Against: 53.99 (6TH)
Corsi %: 55.57% (2ND)
Corsi Shooting %: 3.92% (29TH)
Scoring Chance For: 32.22 (9TH)
Scoring Chance Against: 26.31 (10TH)
Scoring Chance %: 55.13% (5TH)
Road
GF: 104 (6TH)
GA: 95 (5TH)
Shots For: 31.8 (8TH)
Shots Against: 32.9 (21ST)
Shooting %: 8.94% (14TH)
Save %: .921 (4TH)
Corsi For: 61.18 (2ND)
Corsi Against: 60.28 (19TH)
Corsi %: 50.37% (9TH)
Corsi Shooting %: 4.64% (19TH)
Scoring Chance For: 31.15 (2ND)
Scoring Chance Against: 29.89 (14TH)
Scoring Chance %: 51.03% (5TH)
So according to this they actually do a better job of creating scoring chances and limiting scoring chances at home. The big difference is that on the road the puck goes in the net at an average rate, and we get way above average goaltending.
I think that matches the eye test too. I feel like at home every game this year starts with some type of soft or "unlucky" goal that bounces in off of our own guy. Then they spend all game peppering the other team and nothing goes in while every chance the other team gets ends up in the Flames net.