As your intrepid writer types these words, the Wild are being out-shot by the Toronto Maple Leafs halfway through the 3rd period. This might have concerned me in the past, given my penchant for #PANIC and belief in the predictive power of certain statistics, like shots on goal and shot attempts.
I’m not panicking. And I won’t start panicking when I journey over to Natural Stat Trick’s Team Page and see that the Wild are 27th of 30 teams in Shot-Attempts-For% (that is, the percentage of shot attempts controlled by the Wild).
There are several reasons for my lack of #PANIC, some more obvious than others.