There are many variables to consider there though. You're kind of over simplifying it I believe. Although our numbers there aren't that great. And we got throttled by Chicago what 10-1? 7-1 to Winnpeg?
But it's not just giving up a lot of goals. You got to factor in PP, turnovers, bad goaltending, system break downs ectr example your goalie might let in a few bad ones but otherwise your team might have good structure. Yet you lose 5-4. My concern is playing with very little urgency and poor puck management. These are the things that have caused us the most problems. I'm not seeing that as a prevalent issue with elite other teams. Again this goes beyond this season.
I am over simplifying it because I don't have the inclination to dig out the stats to do a comprehensive analysis on this and I haven't been watching enough games from other teams to know whether this is true or not. But the simple test revealed no outrageous weakness.
Lets do another one - games with a corsi % of less than 40%, so less about whether the goaltender let in a few bad ones and more about structure.
Jets - 3
Caps - 13
Vegas - 5
Tampa - 4
Sharks - 4
Preds - 3
Bruins - 3
Us - 4
Again, nothing out of the ordinary. But that stuff can be masked by lots of offence, so lets look at it in terms of shots:
Games with 40 or more shots
Jets - 9
Caps - 4
Vegas - 7
Tampa - 10
Sharks - 10
Preds - 9
Bruins - 3
Us - 5
Beating the average there.
Like, I'd need to feed a lot more stats into this to get something definitive. I bet a game by game breakdown of HDCA last season would be ugly for us.
But I do feel like there's plenty of reason to suspect that our total system breakdown nights were no more frequent than our peers. Maybe we had a lot of games where we didn't try as hard as them, but the results were not significantly work. And that if we feel different, maybe that's because we have spent so much more time watching our team and with so much more emotion attached, and maybe we're more aware of our faults and harsher on them.