This team just doesn’t pass the eye test on home ice for me.
Even if the stats do say they are amazing at possession and getting lots of shots, but how many of those shots look truly threatening? How many times when you see the flames get into the offensive zone and generate shots do you say “wow those were some really close chances?”
There may be a case for actually getting further advanced High danger stats that show how many of those high danger shots a) the defense has at least 4 defenders in the home plate area b) how many generated a rebound, c) how many went towards the outer corners of the nets d) how long did they take to generate the shot from gaining possession.
Those are just four examples of things that advanced stats don’t currently tell us that would actually allow us to see whether it is bad luck or not but currently it doesn’t look like bad luck to me it looks like poor shooting and bad shots
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