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Message: [QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 4232207, member: 4819"] You make some excellent points here. The top line stats don't look too off from last year. The team is scoring 13 goals a game, same as last year, and the number of assists are about the same as well - about seven. But that doesn't really tell the full story. When looking at the top six assisters from last year to this - the top line players were doing a much better job of sharing the ball. I looked at top six to get rid of the "noise". The top six last year accounted for 85 assists, about 6.5 per game. This year's top six (Dordevic, Curry, Berkman, Cordes and Seebold) are much worse at 4.6. If they played a 13 game schedule like last years team did, they would put up just 60. Far below last years leaders (Rhefuss, Hiltz, Curry, Scanlan, Dordevic and Seebold). That of course has an effect on other things as well. The old adage is that a shot coming off a pass is much harder for a goalie to stop, and this years top assisters are shooting just 28% as a unit. Last years top 6 shot the ball at 34%. The 2022 unit, if they shot that percentage would have scored 110 goals so far this season, instead of the 93 they actually have. I think the talk of March getting run out of town really isn't fair. This years team has been frustrating, but they lost their best player before the season even started. I have to imagine that the #2 recruit in the country who March pried away from Denver was due to have a very big impact on this year's team. I was expecting him to lead the team in points. Last year's unit wasn't great, but they also had a serious possession discrepancy. It's frustrating since Phaup has made great strides this year and yet the offense has clearly digressed. This years team is getting a lot more chances. They would produce 475 shots in a 13 game schedule. Last years team shot the ball just 408 times. That's a big difference. I think March has shown that he CAN produce good offenses, you just have to dig a little bit more into the numbers. And you have to factor in the other aspects of the game. [/QUOTE]

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