The Carolina Hurricanes have been frontrunners in the hunt for the Corsi Cup season in and season out for what feels like a decade. Anyone in this market could tell you that their possession dominance hasn’t yielded favorable results, but rather disappointing stretches of play in which the team is labeled “unlucky”. When a team is this unlucky for a matter of years, it’s natural to begin to question the validity of a statistic that’s advertised as a pretty good metric of a team’s competiveness level.
The Hurricanes lead the league in Corsi For percentage by nearly three percent this season but are an abysmal 30th in the league in goals scored.