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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
Sutter always had top five xGF% in LA as well.
His team's spot in the standings always lagged the xGF%. Usually by quite a bit.
He got mostly great results but also missed the playoffs twice (granted one miss was with 95 points).
Maybe Sutter's coaching style does something to skew the xGF% stat a bit because you wouldn't expect it to outperform standings placement every single season.
Will be an interesting thing to watch this season.
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You can't skew a stat like that.
It can be redefined or refined, but as it stands you just get more and better shots from dangerous areas. Always a good thing in hockey.
Sutter's coached some teams with limited talent though, so if you don't have the horses to finish when you get more chances than the opposition you can still get limited results.