I'm in a gameday thread. I'm talking about today's game. You know, the whole point of the thread. If you want to go ***** about Bylsma on a global level, go for it - but I believe we have a thread for that. I'm sure you can find it in your favorites tab.
10-7 with that stat proves absolutely nothing and frankly you should know that. Do you understand the limits of that stat? Its arbitrary time frames on rebounds, its arbitrary areas on the ice that are the "high danger scoring areas" depending on whose model you use. That it doesn't take into account if the player in that area is being defending. So if a guy is in a high danger area with a defense on him that counts the same as a player wide open in that same area. Quite obviously its not the same.
So when Fabbri scores on PP goal on a rebound into a wide open net with no one on him defensively. Or when Schwartz scores a goal putting home a rebound into a wide open net because coverage was blown by 3 Sabres and Lehner was scrambling. Or when noted sniper Brodziak just redirects the puck on net after Nelson lost him in coverage and Lehner and no chance to stop it. Those all count as dangerous scoring chances as much as Girgs with a defender in front of him and the goalie square to him. The one where he hit the defenders skate. The point would hold if it was Reinhart because its not the equal of an open net or easy redirect.
Tarasenko had at least 1 glorious scoring chance in the slot that Lehner got over and made the save on. he was pretty much open with a defender scrambling to get over to him. Do you recall many chances like that or the situations like their 3 goals for us? I honestly don't recall, maybe we had the same amount maybe we had 1. Even our goal was an ugly mess that hopped skipped and jumped into the net. The Blues created scoring chances where the goals were easy to score. We created no such chances that I can recall but I may have missed one. The Blues scored essentially tap ins that require no sniping skills.
You're greatly overplaying this stat's meaning. Like using the percentage to make it seem dramatic. 10-7 isn't much. Not to mention if the Blues had 4 of their 7 HDSC like I described above and we no more than that. It kind of shows the stat doesn't mean as much as you think it does.
Sorry that Buffalo having nearly 60% of the highest quality scoring chances is inconvenient for your narrative of tonight's game. But keep square-pegging that round hole, I'm sure it'll fit soon. In the meantime, enjoy your catharsis.
When you initially quoted that poster he was talking in general that Disco is conservative in response to someone else. That seemed pretty obvious and why I went "global", as you put it. You're the one that brought it around to tonight.
EDIT: And yes everyone seems to be looking for a catharsis of sorts in this frustrating season where injuries killed the fun before it begin.