Even the intangibles don't favour the Flames

Look how many of the heads are down. This was game five. - Candice Ward-USA TODAY SportsUpon joining Matchsticks, I had no idea about fancy stats. Corsi was a motorbike rider to me, PDO sounded like a darts championship and ZSO% was alien. I figure that is probably the same to most hockey fans. A lot of people aren't interested in how many times somebody started in the offensive zone, or how often somebody enters the zone - they just like to see good hockey.

I think it's called the "eye test". We judge on what we see on the ice, what the eyes tell us. There's nothing wrong with that. I still watch hockey that way. If I am writing something that relies on advanced stats to back up the…