Got four questions for the mailbag, so let’s have at it.
Q (More of an FYI, from Ray): I questioned the SAT data showing the Lightning dominated the first two periods of Game 6 in a BSB comment. Anyway, I actually didn’t watch the game live – I taped it -and so I could revisit it. I tried to keep track of zone time in the first period (too mindless to do the entire game). I believe OZ time itself is a better indicator of possession, but the NHL stopped tracking it in 2001 for some reason.
My numbers aren’t perfect, I’m sure, but they are unbiased with presumably small errors which likely mostly balance out.