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Shot Differential: A Recipe for Success

It's been a little more than a year since Tony and I took over at the helm of Hockey Wilderness. With that we have adopted the use of analytics in our writing as well as the conventional stats and "eye test" to formulate our opinions. This, of course, was pioneered on this site by Ger Devine. Since then you've seen words like Fenwick, Corsi, Score Adjusted, War-on-Ice among other new lingo enter the Hockey Wilderness vocabulary.

A website called SportingCharts.com had an article posted that tries to explain team success when average team shot differential is a net positive.