The game against the Leafs is where I think the eye test will correspond incredibly well with the stats - Flames had a tonne of high danger chances, no? Andersen had to move quite a bit in net tonight. Flames were guilty of over-passing it at times, but boy did the Leafs do a piss-poor job of preventing cross-crease passing.
This is an area that I voiced my disdain on Gulutzan's system and how it wasn't dangerous in the offensive zone, regardless of what the high danger chances stats told us it was. This was a much better example of 'actual'(?) high danger chances for. The Leafs were lucky to have that game close, actually - Andersen was very good, and the Flames just didn't connect on some sure goals in some others.
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