13 goals sure.. but the expected goals was tilted wildly in your favor. Sometimes a goalie beats you. Either way I'm bowing out from this thread.. as a NYR fan living in the south I'm totally aware of the disrespect the southern teams get. I happen to disagree that there's anything wrong with your team. Most of these games were tilted badly in your favor. Again.. Igor's up for the hart for a reason.
I don't give a shit about expected goals. That bullshit made us look good to fancystats guys while we were shitting the sheets annually under Bill Peters.
Fact of the matter is, our offense shit itself this postseason. Our best players were our worst performers. Our power play finished the year at something like an atrocious 10 for 97. Everything that worked for us in November was dogshit in May.
We collapse when we can't control matchups. We have no players that we can rely on to take over a game offensively. Our entire game plan is to hope Staal and Slavin shut down the opposing scorers long enough for us to get a goal and then pack it in. And if that doesn't happen, welp, that sucks for us.
That's not sustainable in the playoffs and yet our front office is seemingly doubling down on that as a strategy. Domi was a mistake at the deadline. Bear was a mistake in the off-season. Not trading Necas for Tarasenko looks like a huge f***ing mistake. Having a PP that cannot run without TDA doing literally everything is a mistake.
Good news is, after this playoff failure, the excuses are going to run dry. It's inexcusable that the team has looked as consistently overwhelmed on the road as they did.
