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Originally Posted by ricardodw
You are nothing if not consistent. You are conceptually challenged and seem proud of it.
The simple fact that great teams dominating the standings and being the obvious best teams of the era were not out-shooting the rest of the teams is a open and direct challenge to the concept that shots based possession stats have any value whatsoever.
If shots based stats were important in identifying good/great hockey teams I would have expected that the Oilers would have been out-shooting their opposition by a huge margin.
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This just seems silly though.
Are you suggesting getting out shot as a tactic then?
None of these stats guarantee anything, but it stands to reason that you're better off out attempting, shooting, and scoring chance your opponents if you want to win more games than you lose.