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Originally Posted by Jimdon
When you've got corsi masters Nordstrom and Backlund driving those numbers and being some ( or the worst) of the least efficient offensive players in the entire league corsi can be a pretty misleading stat.
No doubt goaltending has been bad, but results are measured in wins and losses and nothing else.
It's great that the Flames are attacking 55% of the time but when that attack amounts to a toothless tiger its nothing to brag about.
Edit: goaltending has been poor, but a team that struggles to score more than 2 goals a game doesn't get to use that crutch.
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That's... not true. Coaches are evaluated based on the "results" in terms of outplaying other teams. Even cliches like "effort" are part of the results that coaches bring. Hockey is a sport with a lot of volatility in the other areas that result in wins and losses. A team can defend better and create better scoring chances and score less and get scored on more, and win less, and another team can defend like crap, and only score on random bounces from far out, and get more wins. The latter team is not better-coached.