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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I don't think anyone will argue that the goaltending hasn't been as good but it seems to me like they are having more defensive breakdowns in their own end leading to goals. As said above I'm not sold that xGA60 and xGF60 are ironclad stats.
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Nor should you be.
But they're applied across all teams and all goaltenders. So you're saying the Flames are finding a way to allude the stat and are worse than what they're measured against?
Not sure that holds water.
Shot from the slot is a scoring chance. Too many of those and your goaltender is under duress.
Don't cover someone in front of the net and he takes a pass ... high danger chance.
Don't cover someone and he picks up a rebound ... high danger chance.
Those get counted. They will eventually, some day, have more detail and a split between super duper high danger, super high danger and high danger, but for now they're pretty simple counts.
If the Flames were turning basic shot attempts into high danger issues we'd see it in the numbers.