Not another Corsi discussion...

[cygnus47]

Fenwick Close is a better team stat than Corsi and it suggests the Pens are a good puck possession team.

What Fenwick Close essentially tracks is what percentage of even strength shots a team takes when the game is close or tied. The Pens take 51.9% of shots in such situations, good for 11th in the league.

The reason Fenwick Close is better than Corsi is Fenwick Close accounts for things like score effects where when a team is down by several goals they start pushing the attack more and taking more chances. And obviously teams that are up tend to sit back.

As a team, we're a good possession club. Combine that with our lethal special teams and adequate goaltending and you have the explanation for why we are where we are.

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We're not elite at puck possession but still pretty good, and like I said when you couple that with our great special teams you have a pretty damned good hockey team.

That said, if we made some trades, we could potentially elevate our puck possession to top 10 or even top 5 in the league. Combine that with our special teams and boy would teams dread playing us.

We were in the top 5 in the league until the injuries struck. I believe that stat was WAY better than it has been in the past. Whether we can play like we deserve to be there still....

 

[Fogel]

Both Fenwick and Corsi, accounting for score effects or "close" as most have it designated, have fallen off quite a bit since Dupuis went out. There was a smaller dip after the Boston thuggery game, but the dip when Dupuis went out has been bigger.