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Originally Posted by dammage79
Summed up my feelings on the subject.
It is funny. The greatest success the flames have had in recent years was in a "unsustainable" system. But it doesn't fit with the advanced stats community to accept that success in this sport is not driven by numbers. It's driven by will and heart. You can have the perfect system but if your players play like robots like they did in gullys system, they won't go far.
I get it. So many people watch the sport, and everyone needs a way to stay interacted with it by many means. If advanced stats keeps people around, so be it. I don't need them to watch the game or tell what's working and what is not. Because most time my perception is that if your team is winning the Corsi game, they're losing where it matters most.
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But it was unsustainable, no? The Flames aren't the only examples of that. And while there are all kinds of excuses for Hartley's failure the next year, they mostly have to do with the start of the the year. yet the Flames were at their worst in February/March that year.
It's funny, though, the huge Hartley success in one year is based in large part on him winning one additional round against a much inferior team to the one who beat Calgary in the first round the next year (all but one in one-goal games).