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Originally Posted by The Cobra
Bingo, I was surprised to see Calgary had 50% of the expected goals in all situations, after getting only 31% of the expected goals in 5v5.
But wouldn't that suggest that it was, based on the advanced stats, an evenly played game?
The eye test for me was that Pittsburgh outplayed Calgary, but the fancy stats say otherwise?
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I tend to lean on 5 on 5 stats when determining who the better team was, and it was Pittsburgh by a landslide.
Calgary picked up a lot of expected goal action on that early first period powerplay and then again with the goalie pulled.
The middle 50 minutes they were bad five on five and with the man advantage.
Their first period powerlay generated 1.18 in expected goals, of their 3.26 for the entire 65 minute game.