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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 suggest 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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I don’t like the use of the word fake in this context. Stupid Trump and people who say what he says.
But say a team with a quick transition game gets an odd man rush, generates a truly dangerous scoring chance, and scores a goal on their first shot. Then they return to the neutral zone with only one corsi event to show for it. That’s not sustained pressure. And doesn’t out corsi anyone. And is something the Flames were bad at last year.
Meanwhile, the team that gets all 5 guys ready to move together, while the opposing team sets up the D structure, is kept to the outside, and may get rebounds, leading to more Corsi events. They may try to pick corners and miss, and may pick up the pucks that are moved away from the front of the net into the corners or the outside, because that’s where their players are.
That’s what 14-15 Hartley let other teams do. Fill your boots with shots from the outside. That’s what Gulutzan’s Flames did.
Maybe it’s semantics. The other teams let the Flames have the puck to the outside and take low percentage shots until they can regain possession. You can call it sustained pressure, but it is arguably equal parts rope a dope.
There is no narrative that changes what we saw last year. Lots of shots, not dangerous, losing hockey.