Holland has made some bad decisions for sure but he has also made some good ones.
Stats be damned. Game one. Who cares.
In the Woody era there was definately a lot of goalie scouting going on. I hope the same emphasis is being put on it with Knob. We will need to do our homework to beat Bob most effectively.
For sure, but odds are already long. Lose the next one and they’re pretty much insurmountable.
Give Draisaitl a top winger and every other forward drops down a spot and they all look a little better.
I beginning to think Gagner could out worm the worm.
Its exactly what we were doing though. For instance 3rd period Kane bulling around net. Mcleod dishes a puck in front, it somehow doesn't go in. Foegele makes a wrap, sends puck through crease, with Kane there, and somehow the puck with eyes goes right through the crease bouncing off nothing. Panthers were getting these kinds of breaks tonight and when they weren't they were getting Bobo.
The Oilers lost game 1 of the Vancouver series and still won.
Can dig deeper and see how often teams in that 70% controlled 90% of play. Probably not much. Probably the Game 1 in those series showed the stark difference in quality of those teams, lots of Cup finals have been one-sided, we saw nothing of that sort tonight. I bet if you dig into it, you can probably just throw that stat entirely away considering what we saw in Game 1.
No GM is perfect . Look at fkn Chiarelli for that example. I'd give Holland a bit of a pass in that this team made the Stanley Cup Final and made the top 4 a couple of seasons ago. Overall, he's done a pretty good job. He also had to dig out of the mess Chiarelli left behind.
Skinner could have had a .980 tonight and we’d have still lost. But sure, it all comes down to that and not at all the zero goals we scored.
He has done some good things so he deserves credit but his mistakes are massive.
Considering thay bar down goal that the Cats buried. They probably still win, cause that goal goes in on Bob too.
Yeah 100%.
You’re not winning games scoring zero goals either. Both goaltending and goal scoring needs to be considered if you are going to analyze wins and losses. Hockey isn’t just played in the blue paint, it’s a 200 ft game.
