Plan to Outshoot Your Opponents? Bad Idea...  Written by Chris
on .  Just playing around on stats again and noticed that it
looked like teams which had outshot their opponents didn't
appear to have a great record.  So I downloaded the stats to an
excel sheet and realized, this little fact:  Record of teams
when outshooting their opponent: 103-97-19 Record of teams when
being outshot: 116-77-26  Because of the OT point, this is
better shown wins vs. loss ratio (including OT). Win/Loss Ratio
of outshooting teams: .88 wins to every 1 loss. Win/Loss Ratio
of teams which are outshot: 1.12 wins to every 1 loss.  This is
as of Friday, so things may have slightly changed, but, so far,
teams that outshoot their opponents have done fairly
significantly worse than those being outshot.  Why is this? I
have a couple ideas, but don't have a definitive answer.    •
Shots really don't mean much in today's game.  Goaltending is
the difference.   • Maybe shots just aren't accurately counted. 
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