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Originally Posted by Bingo
Are their "events" less dangerous than the rest of the league's due to how they set up?
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a shot from the high danger area isn't enough information to actually deem it a high danger chance. it's been repeated by a bunch of people during the collapse when they were massively outshooting opposition without results, but they almost never catch the defense or goalies scrambling/out of position. instead, everyone on D is set to clear and the goalie is all squared up to make the save and pump up his sv%.
if there was a way to measure the setup to each shot to see how much the defensive formation was getting pulled apart, that would expose the Flames' weakness in converting on their high volumes. I honestly think you would get better results measuring crowd noise. spectators intuitively can tell when a play nearly results in a goal; the decibel level of "ooohs" probably correlates well to true high danger chances.
in short...start passing faster and using one-timer threats to catch defense/goalies out of position, and transition/attack faster to put them on their heels more often. then you'll actually see high danger counts that have meaningful results.