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I'm not as concerned about shots for vs shots against too much.
IIRC we dominated shots for/against under Eakins, and we know all too well how that worked out forrl us.

I'm more concerned with high danger shots for/against and expected goals for/against.
I haven't delved into those stats, but by the eye test (excluding the 1st 2 games and the total no show vs the Leafs) we have been MUCH better at reducing those high danger chances against. We could have had in his prime Hasek or Brodeur in net, but even they wouldn't have been able to stop thosehigh danger chances we would routinely give up. I'd contest that our better sv% is a result of allowing lower quality shots on net, rather than giving up 5-10 grade A chances a game like we've done previously.

Call me cautiously optimistic at this stage. I've been burned by this team too many times to be anything more than that.

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