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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
It's measuring shots against, basically. Granted, it's weighting them.
I think if you went and found multiple years of Nurse's xGA data and found there was a significant variance year to year you might have a point, and could reasonably ask "does last year really represent who this player is", the way you can with Tanev... But it doesn't really vary in his case.
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I know what it measures.
But if a guy in a consistent role has consistent numbers and a guy in changing roles/team has numbers that are all over, then we could deduce that we are measuring usage rather than ability.
I think this year will be an interesting test of this measure if a guy tracks it throughout the season. I would expect Nurse to improve on this stat this season as the Oilers have added a few better puck possession forwards to their roster, and forwards have a bigger impact on the corsi than defencemen.
It will be interesting to see what goes on with Keith as well who has been even worse than Nurse in XGA/60 the past few seasons.