When you look at the breakdown of GA's by type for each team you can make a case the Flames goalies haven't been good this year.
GA at 5 on 5:
99 Total
88 SCGA
53 HDGA
So that works out too:
11 - GA that weren't a scoring chance
35 - Low or Medium scoring chance GA
53 - High Danger goals against
Only Seattle, Toronto and Nashville have given up less GA on non-scoring chances. I would think most of these would be bad goals.
23 teams have given up less goals that 35 on low and medium danger scoring chances. Flames are one of the worst in the league here. Medium danger save percent is bottom 5.
High Danger save percent is also bottom 10 in the league as well.
Too many goals this year on medium danger scoring chances against. Ones that you can say, can't blame him but it would be nice to get a save here once in a while.
I'd love to see the NHL break high danger chances into a few buckets. Not sure how they would do it, but goalies being set vs moving to make the save or contested chances for open chances. Not sure but it would be the next level for advanced stats.
How do people who say the Flames give up more terrible chances even though the stats say they don't vs what other teams do? Do you watch every single game or just the Flames. Our team does not create a ton of high danger chances so is it not possible that when teams play us, we think our d stinks vs other teams d but it could be our forwards making the d look good?
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