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Originally Posted by Bingo
When you have 65 shot attempts with no break down of where they came you may have a team that is a perimeter squad that never generates anything.
But when you have a team that is off the charts in high and medium chances, but not as high in low, they're actually shooting from dangerous areas more often than most NHL teams.
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Appreciate the additional insight. I guess my question then becomes why did a team that on paper took shots from good areas, have such a poor track record in terms of translating to the results that matter, ie goals and wins?
I don't think you can put much of that to luck...at least not over a span of a whole season. Luck doesn't account for a league 9th worst -30 DIFF. Lack of finishing skillset is probably a big one. This years team definitely seems to have quite an upgrade on that front. Predictability and a slow game (as Fonz brought up) is probably another big one. Teams knew exactly what they were going to get with the Flames. To me that's mostly a systems issue, and also something that I see being upgraded this year.
I guess in the end we had a combination of subpar hockey players led by subpar coaching, led to a subpar result.