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Originally Posted by djsFlames
I'm so tired of good underlying numbers! The scoreboard is the only thing that matters. We shouldn't be aiming for more of the same. The Oilers are a possession team too, and how's that working out?
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This is 100% true and also misleading.
The only thing that matters is scoring more goals than the other side.
The reason some people (like myself) harp on possession statistics is they correlate strongly with scoring more goals than the other side.
If you have the puck in the offensive zone (CF%), shoot (SF%), generate scoring chances (SC%) and create high-danger scoring chances (HDSC%) more often than the other side, you are likely to score more often than the other side.
This relationship is not causation nor is it near perfect correlation, but it is strong correlation so I think it matters.