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Originally Posted by Bingo
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.
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Not at all.
But trying to identify a good or better team by shots-based stats is not valid.
The Oilers and Islanders were great teams in the day and they were confident in Fuhr and Billy Smith stopping the shots that they need to win.
Teams with confidence in their goalie will play a different possession game.
For the Oilers a hard save by Fuhr was the start of a scoring chance for them.
I am just using Oilers as an example of an unarguable great team.
The Hartley Flames worked the same way without the future HOFers in the lineup. They counted on Hiller and Ramo to make some saves and generate offense from the defense zone and the goalie doing his job.
Bad possession stats were a result of playing a system that was most successful for the team.
No one is going to argue that the Oilers could have been even better if they focused on shutting down shots against.