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Originally Posted by neo45
One Oiler revealed they were coached specifically to direct everything at the net to increase possession stats under Eakins I believe. I think it was Eberle, WHILE Eakings was still coach.
I think they also purposely manipulate the shots on net stars up north. There was one game against on last year where the announcers called out the stats for being way off.
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Yes, it was Eberle but it was after Eakins was fired. After Nelson took over, their record had significantly improved (they were still garbage, but they weren't hot garbage anymore) and someone asked Eberle about it and he said that Eakins had told them to shoot from anywhere but Nelson was focused on taking higher-quality shots.
Their stats that season:
Eakins:
31 GP | 7-19-5 | 19P | 0.306 P% | Corsi: 50.92% (14th overall)
Nelson:
51GP | 17-25-9 | 43P | 0.422 P% | Corsi: 46.44% (26th overall)
Under Nelson, their Corsi got significantly worse, but their record got significantly better.
That was also the season where the Oilers hired Dellow to be their Analytics expert, reporting directly to Eakins, which shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose and value of analytics.