{"id":409008,"date":"2026-01-15T14:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/409008\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:11:15","slug":"the-islanders-alarming-advanced-stats-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/409008\/","title":{"rendered":"The Islanders&#8217; alarming advanced stats, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON, Alberta \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/13\/sports\/islanders-defense-struggles-in-rough-road-loss-to-jets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Islanders\u2019 5-4 loss to the Jets<\/a> on Tuesday night was only the second time since Nov. 8 they\u2019ve given up five or more goals in a game, but if you are tracking the advanced stats closely, maybe it didn\u2019t come as a huge surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Islanders have flourished this season, taking a 25-16-5 record into Northern Alberta for Thursday night\u2019s match against the Oilers, the numbers haven\u2019t quite followed them.<\/p>\n<p>By Evolving Hockey\u2019s measure of expected-goals percentage at five-on-five, the Islanders rank 28th in the league at just 46.25 percent. They\u2019re not much better in Corsi: 26th overall at 47.73 percent. Natural Stat Trick has them ranked 30th in high-danger-chance percentage at an abysmal 43.54 and 30th in scoring-chance percentage at 46.17, both at five-on-five.<\/p>\n<p>To sum it up, the numbers are saying the Islanders are overperforming in a big way on both ends of the ice. Whether or not you should trust those numbers and start fearing the season is hanging by a thread is a more complicated question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON, Alberta \u2014 The Islanders\u2019 5-4 loss to the Jets on Tuesday night was only the second time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5110],"tags":[5,277,3521,122,374,3328,159,5190,5189,4,2541,43,336],"class_list":["post-409008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-islanders","tag-hockey","tag-ilya-sorokin","tag-inside-the-islanders","tag-islanders","tag-matthew-schaefer","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-islanders","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkislanders","tag-nhl","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115899524153146278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}