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Originally Posted by Bingo
This doesn't work though.
Say a team wanted a corsi event so they shot from center ice ... all they are doing is giving up possession and the other team brings it back at you. A game of taking muffins from distances wouldn't pad corsi because you wouldn't sustain enough time to run up totals.
I see this "fake corsi" thing from time to time but it's a fallacy.
You actually need to sustain pressure to out corsi the opposition, you can't fake it.
The Flames clearly had a territorial advantage last season but they didn't put enough pucks in the net to make it an actual advantage. Some some uggest their high danger chances weren't that high danger, and I think there's something to that. But the bulk of it was setting a modern record for an NHL team shooting wide.
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If we are going with Corsi, isn’t that the definition? I might be misunderstanding you. They put enough numbers of pucks at the net.
I agree with the whole ‘dump from center ice into the net, and you don’t sustain pressure’ argument. But it’s much easier to take the easy shot from outside home plate, than hang onto the puck, make a few plays, and take the more threatening shot. You sacrifice quantity for quality in most things, shots included.
I agree that ‘fake Corsi’ makes no sense, but I entirely believe that a team can increase the volume of shots on net while decreasing the quality of those shots. That happens every time a new goalie enters a game. I think this is all pretty intuitive, but the disagreements may be more on semantics and personal interpretation of what Corsi means (shots vs. possession). A better term might be ‘fake posession’.
Edit: I did misread. You said IN the net, not ON the net.