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Yup, good ol Corsi. I think Crosby is and has been one of worst corsi players in league isn't he...does anyone need to say more. I had heard that any reliance on fancy stats was already passé, as proven to be mostly useless and more actual scouts is the trend for teams.

And if faceoff wins lead to chances, they are captured in Corsi and Fenwick. Those stats do not exclude chances after faceoff wins. What they do is capture all chances. So if you are bad at faceoffs, but make up for it in other areas, that is captured, which is why Schiefele can be a dominant forward at around 45% on faceoffs... or why no one cares that Malkin is at 40% and never talk about moving him to wing. If you give up a couple chances a game due to losing a faceoff, but then create 10 more chances than the average player, are you going to swap that guy out for someone who is well rounded in all areas and is 50% on faceoffs, and 50% on chances? I'd rather have the players who create/prevent most chances in all aspects of the game than worry about faceoffs. If Drouin is scoring points and playing decent defence, but losing faceoffs, why would we care? Corsi/Fenwick/Scoring Chance %.... these are the stats measuring how a player does in all aspects of the game. Faceoff %... this is a stat that measures only one specific aspect. So you are right... why would you look at the stat that only measures one aspect in stead of the one that measures how you excel in all aspects.