Agreed that advanced stats are indicative of good performance. But you can put me in the there are more important factors affecting performance than shot metrics and the 22-23 Flame's are the case study that a system of play can produce good advanced stats and be bad. But it's part of a suite of problems that includes a bad system of play (or let's say bad for this group), bad player performance, and bad chemistry/culture. I blame Sutter for a lot of this, not all of it, but he's the central problem and the problem that is most fixable.
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