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Originally Posted by dammage79
And that's the whole thing. Flames missed the net 1000 times when that stat was trotted out. Statline the fan trots out today, they shoot a ton but are 24th in goals per game. 24. And lead the league in missed shot. They way they're going about shot generation is bad. It's the system. You can't honestly say that the Flames version of high volume shot generation is going to lead to success. It hasnt, and it won't. Go through every GDT and you'll find a series of posts saying we make every damned goalie look great. I don't need fancy advanced metric shot stats to tell me what I'm seeing every game I watch. It's plain as day the quality of shots they're taking is bad.
Yes the cliche of just get pucks to the nets and good thing will happen is true, but I'll be damned if anyone tells me the Flames are doing it the right way.
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And see that’s where I think we see the game differently because I don’t blame that on them getting too high a volume of shots. I blame Most of it on a lack of shooting talent on this team, some of it on a coaching staff that has these guys gripping the sticks too tight, and some on bad luck.
I can’t count how many times this year Lazar, Hathaway, Bennett, etc (those three stand out the most to me) have had a shot right in the slot only to miss the net by 2 feet.
Backlund and Frolik have had many glorious opportunities this year only to shoot it right into the goalies chest.
One fault I do have with this team system is the lack of East-West puck movement in the offensive zone, which I think is partially due to coaches fear of giveaways from cross seam passes but I don’t think that means all the shots they do take are low danger. They still seem to get the puck in the right area of the ice for a good chance they just don’t finish.