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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
I am trying to pay more attention to the shots on net now as a fan watching this game. Where they are shooting from, are they getting to open spots? Are they trying to screen? Are they going for tips? Are they passing across the 'royal road'? This is a team that, once you start focusing on it actively instead of allowing bias to misremember things, that they do surprisingly get a lot of quality shots off.
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Score effects really affect how a team looks. When you're behind in the game, you can still generate good scoring chances, but if nothing good develops, you'll have the temptation to just blast the puck at the net from anywhere and hope for a fluke. You end up scoring the same number of goals – plus that occasional fluke – but your shooting percentage looks like garbage because you've added a bunch of low-percentage shots.
We've seen the Flames shoot a lot of garbage at opposing nets when they were trailing, and we saw Columbus do the same thing tonight. We just haven't seen the 32nd-place team play with a lead very often.