woke up this morning
put on my shoes
tied my shoes
went to the computer

thought I'd check the score
I made a move
know what to do
try to break and run;

baby this ain't them, baby this ain't them
lose so ugly, lose so ugly
don't even know themselves
don't even know themselves

(Paraphrasing The Black Keys' "Grown So Ugly". Originally written by Robert Pete Williams)

After seeing the recap of last night's version of Ducks-Sharks, and that the Ducks were outshot by 35. It made me curious about the Ducks' start so far this preseason, and how it matched up with last season. I'm going to take a very premature, superficial, and lazy approach, with a cue from that -35 shot differential, and over-analyze a small sample of shot totals and results. In truly lazy fashion, I'm just going to throw some numbers at you, and let you guys handle the interpretation/analysis. Really, I just wanted to see the data side-by-side, and figured maybe someone else might like to see it, since I looked it up. Here we go... after the jump.

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