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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Two things.
First, being top three in shots attempts from home plate does not disprove the assertion that the Flames under Gulutzan were a 'shoot from anywhere' team. Not only are those not mutually exclusive, but if the team is the latter, you would actually expect the former to also be high.
Second, it's a little rich to complain about narrative given how some are holding onto Corsi as a crutch to try and handwave away the incompetence of the system and how the stats demonstrated just how awful it was.
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Rich? How so?
I've pointed out numerous times that I think they let the defenders get set within the scoring areas meaning they had less to shoot for resulting in low conversion rates and shooting wide a lot.
I've said it several times.
This isn't defending a system, but it's certainly dismissing the idea that you can "fake corsi" or that teams that shoot from everywhere can have high corsi stats.
You do bring up an interesting thought though? Non dangerous corsi attempts.
The Flames were ranked
3rd in CF
3rd in CF%
4th in HDCF
2nd in HDCF%
3rd in NonDangerCF
4th in NonDangerCF%
So yeah lots of pucks towards the net, but they're not proving out to be a perimeter team.