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Originally Posted by Bingo
Man this gets old
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I agree. Fancy stats just need to go away. They've been a crutch for fans of bad teams for years. They don't explain anything nor predict anything. They are a statistical excuses for bad systems and bad teams.
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What is fancy about it? Honestly. It's a world where you put more pucks towards the net than the opposition and run up more scoring chances.
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Throwing a ton of pucks at the net from low percentage areas does not trump a few pucks from high percentage areas. The Flames can skate around the perimeter and throw pucks from outside all night and all they do is generate a lot of shots with no goals. It ups the Corsi number and gives the fancy stats fans a crutch that the Flames are just experiencing bad luck. Nope. No bad luck involved. It was a failed system that had no hope of success, especially when your defensive scheme gives up tons of great scoring opportunities from high percentage scoring areas. More shots does not equate to outplaying the opposition. Especially if the opposition is allowing you to maintain position around the perimeter and just clog up the shooting lanes.
The Flames were like a college basketball team taking on the LA Lakers in the midst of their fast break glory days. The Lakers would let the college team grind out the clock and take low percentage shots from the outside, then kill them with a quick fast break transition.
This was the Flames problem the past two years. The opposition was well positioned and kept the Flames to the outside and made them take low percentage shots. When opportunity was there for a quick transition it resulted in the Flames being on their heals, giving up great scoring opportunities, and in the end a bunch of goals. Sure, the Flames spent a lot of time in the offensive zone, but they generated nothing of significance during most of that time. Conversely, the opposition got great opportunities and they capitalized on them with a greater level of efficiency.
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But yeah the team had a terrible bottom six, the top six had the talent and were pretty dominant but they just didn't finish to their career averages and that lack of production made the fact they were out playing the opposition almost useless because it rarely resulted on the scoreboard.
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It was system more than it was players. I really hope that Peters brings in a different system. If he doesn't, all of the retooling in the world won't make a bit of difference. The problems are systemic more than personnel. Yes, the additions should help, but if they play the same perimeter game and take the same useless shots from low percentage areas, we'll be reading more articles about Flames having bad luck or they are on the verge of breaking out, because fancy stats says so.