Throughout most of this season, the New Jersey Devils have been winning despite their possession numbers, which have frankly been terrible. The team currently has a 47.61 CF%, which ranks as the 5th worst in the NHL. Over time, the general correlation is that the better a team is in possession, the better chance they will have at winning consistently. There are of course exceptions to this consensus, with the 2013-14 Devils instantly coming to mind. That was a dominant possession team, ending the year with a CF% of 54.50, but they could not win games.
Devils’ Corsi Differential Has Slowly Improved
