voyageur
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- Jul 10, 2011
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Yup, the line is pretty thin between winning and losing in hockey. What do you think the chances are of a team getting outshot 4 to 1 every game in a season and making the playoffs is?
You are just making an argument out of hyperbole. Teams rarely get outshot 4-1. A hockey game is ebb and flow, momentum. That's the execution part, and in modern hockey, special teams.
Shots are important. But possession is the battle. The Jets, with good conditioning, showed an ability to sustain zone time, with defensive pressure and back pressure, winning a lot of one on one's. Keeping sustained zone time beyond 45 seconds of a shift is when you can change lines to increase the pressure and probability of a goal or a penalty. Statically I think offensive zone time is a good measure of our team. Some offense comes from counter attack, but generally originates in offensive zone battles, and execution.