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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
This is where you know people are posting on reputation. The Flames can no longer be classified as physical, which I don't think is bad at all with a focus on speed and skill. But really the lowest team (by far) in hits can't be considered physical. Flames have 887 hits, the next lowest is Toronto with 992. Pittsburgh leads with 1763.
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One thing I know to be true from years of hearing about it through various media outlets is every building in the league has their own statisticians tracking things like hits, blocked shots etc. Calgary has always been known to be extremely objective when it comes to tracking hits in particular and not nearly as liberal (specifically when it comes to tracking the home teams stats) as many other buildings around the league.
I'm not saying that is why we are last, and do think we could use some more grit in the lineup, but its probably why we are so far behind Toronto..
We likely have the fairest, most unbiased statisticians in the league!