They are a very flawed team. Bottom 5-10 in many defensive metrics and even their stars/top producers give up a lot defensively to produce offense. Hyman has the worst xGA/60 on the team despite his gaudy point totals and Kane, McDavid, Drai and our old friend Tyson Barrie are all right there with him. They cheat defense to score as much as they do and eventually that will catch up with them, especially when their goaltending is also shoddy (Skinner seems decent but Jack is pretty terrible right now).
Pretty disgusting. As a kid (age 8-9), I witnessed disgusting things similar in the 60's. We didn't live in a "nice" area and our schools were overcrowded, and there was "accommodation" made for intellectually disabled but well, you would think 50 years later everyone would have evolved (been educated) , but that isn't the case. As society is no different, there still are those people.
Today with social media, I tend to question everything.
The insurmountable evidence that is against him and his agent about the lying and gas lighting is way too much for him to even possibly defend. Just go over the bruins boards, and you'll see so much more evidence, stories and so on so forth.
It didn't look deliberate to me, but should have been called.
The penalty in OT was legit.
Just before the midpoint Flames were outshooting Isles 25-6.
Barzal now tied for third with 14 assists, but no goals. Only four other players have more than 7 without a goal (8, 9, 10, and 10), and they are all defencemen.
They're running a top 4 of Nurse, Ceci, Kulak and Bouchard. That's not stopping most offenses around the league. Combine that with abysmal defensive play from some of their top forwards and you have a team that can't even go on a run when the best player in the world is 2 PPG
The goaltending is a product of their terrible defense. Skinner has actually played pretty well, but the Oilers give out grade A chances like candy. They're the true definition of a run and gun team.
Also doesn't help their high scoring stars have abysmal defensive numbers this season.
After a legit improvement last season, really not contributing at both ends this year.
For example, last year McDavid had a 57% 5v5 shot differential and teams averaged less than 30 shots/60 with him on the ice. 59% goal differential overall.
This season McDavid has a 50% on ice shot differential and teams are averaging 38.45 shots/60 with him on the ice. 54% goal differential overall.
Goalies have been rough but are the team leaders helping out?
It didn't look deliberate to me, but should have been called.
The penalty in OT was legit.
Just before the midpoint Flames were outshooting Isles 25-6.
Barzal now tied for third with 14 assists, but no goals. Only four other players have more than 7 without a goal (8, 9, 10, and 10), and they are all defencemen.
The goaltending is a product of their terrible defense. Skinner has actually played pretty well, but the Oilers give out grade A chances like candy. They're the true definition of a run and gun team.
Yeah, if you've seen some of the goals Campbell has given up it wouldn't matter if Lidstrom was on their 2nd. pairing. Last one I saw he looked at his glove to see if there was a hole in it. Brutal.
Eh, I'm a little weary of using HDCA this early in the season. In general the 'scoring chance' stats tend to be a bit sketchier due to the more subjective way of how they're recorded and the inconsistencies, and HDCA in particular is an even smaller and more subjective sample especially early on in the year, there's too much noise in that stat right now IMO. If we stick to just regular scoring chances, Leafs rank 12th best in SCA/60 and and Oilers 18th.
IMO CA/60 and xGA together are more reliable as they're built off a large pool of data and xGA uses shot location to adjust for quality (also not a fool proof system but less noise here IMO), and in both of those Edmonton ranks very poorly. Same with your classic 'shots against' metric in which Toronto is 7th best and Edmonton 24th.
Eh, I'm a little weary of using HDCA this early in the season. In general the 'scoring chance' stats tend to be a bit sketchier due to the more subjective way of how they're recorded and the inconsistencies, and HDCA in particular is an even smaller and more subjective sample especially early on in the year, there's too much noise in that stat right now IMO. If we stick to just regular scoring chances, Leafs rank 12th best in SCA/60 and and Oilers 18th.
IMO CA/60 and xGA together are more reliable as they're built off a large pool of data and xGA uses shot location to adjust for quality (also not a fool proof system but less noise here IMO), and in both of those Edmonton ranks very poorly. Same with your classic 'shots against' metric in which Toronto is 7th best and Edmonton 24th.
No, it uses shots data and does a weight adjustment based on shot location. Again not perfect but IMO it's a larger and more consistent pool of data to work with.
No, it uses shots data and does a weight adjustment based on shot location. Again not perfect but IMO it's a larger and more consistent pool of data to work with.
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