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Originally Posted by Textcritic
And goaltending cannot be discounted for how it helps to contribute to other individual players performances. When your goalie cannot stop a beach ball, it puts a tonne of pressure on you and your mates to score. When that pressure is on I believe it is collectively a lot harder for players to play.
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Carolina has great underlying numbers this year, and it looks sustainable in that they don't have any one stat that is carrying them. They are out playing and out chancing the opposition but they don't have insane shooting or save percentage stats. Their PDO is 1.00 flat.
And yeah Calgary is different.
They are out playing the opposition by all measures, especially in shot and chance generation. They give up too much, not in shot attempts but in high danger chances against which they have to clean up. Their execution numbers are way below average so far too ... their save percentage (overall, and on high danger chances) is brutal, and their shooting percentages are less than league average both overall and in high danger chances. This puts their PDO at 0.98 which is bottom third of the league.
To be 3-2-0 with 4 road games, stops in Nashville, St. Louis and Colorado and a PDO in the bottom third of the league is a pretty good sign.