So the Canucks were a product of PDO all this time? Or are they still a legitimate contender?

[Regal]

That's kind of the point. This is a crazy regression from last year.

Oh for sure. Obviously .500 in regulation isn’t good enough and significantly worse than last year. I just think sometimes there can be too much focus on OT record when a lot of it is noise. If they were 10-4 in OT instead there probably wouldn’t be a thread like this, but they’d be just as mediocre a team

 

[AwesomeInTheory]

Oh yeah, we’re all really traumatized from last years regular season match up with the Canucks…

I mean, there were dudes who were rageposting every game the Canucks had on the Oilers board and seem incapable of giving any kind of credit to the Canucks. If that doesn't scream salty I dunno what is.

Also, the traumatized was re: goaltending, not playing the Canucks. Reading comprehension isn't a strong suit I'm seeing. For example:

Lol what is this?

Like seriously? The Oilers just beat the Canucks in a second-round playoff series!

That's sort of my point, Einstein. You guys won the playoff series but are still moaning about the Canucks. I only hopped back into this thread cos an Oilers fan responded to a post I made months ago yesterday.

Wonder what happened yesterday to cause that.

You guys don’t know when to STFU, eh?

I mean when you completely miss the point of what is being said I can see how you could construe it that way.

 

[Brookbank]

Pretty clear at this point that all the PDO "jokes" weren't jokes at all.

Pretty clear that you don't even know what PDO is or what the Canucks were scoring the season before last year. Here it is he season before lasts goal totals : Pettersson (37 goals), Kuzmenko (37 goals ), Horvat (31goals), Miller (30 goals)

The Oilers had only 3 30 goal scorers in 2023

So was 2023 just PDO too or have the Canucks core never really had a problem scoring goals ? Why didn't you cry about PDO in 2023 ?

 

[Three On Zero]

Pretty clear that you don't even know what PDO is or what the Canucks were scoring the season before last year. Here it is he season before lasts goal totals : Pettersson (37 goals), Kuzmenko (37 goals ), Horvat (31goals), Miller (30 goals)

The Oilers had only 3 30 goal scorers in 2023

So was 2023 just PDO too or have the Canucks core never really had a problem scoring goals ? Why didn't you cry about PDO in 2023 ?

Top PDO %s since 2016. The PDO narrative is fun but Vancouver didn't do anything that doesn't happen yearly. Washington and Winnipeg are both on pace to eclipse what Vancouver had for PDO.

Boston with the historic regular season run and then losing in the first round the Florida is a better example of a team riding high PDO. Vancouver at least was within a goal for the Conference Final

2016 - Washington 103%, Minnesota 102.3%
2017 - Nashville 102.5%, Nashville 102.3%
2018 - Tampa 104%, Islander 102.3%
2019 - Boston 102.6%, Tampa 102.6%
2020 - Pittsburgh 102.6%, Vegas 102.6%
2021 - Rangers 102.5%, Tampa 102.5%, Minnesota 102.5%
2022 - Boston 104.2%, Dallas 102.4%
2023 - Vancouver 102.9%, Winnipeg 102.7%, Boston 102.6%
2024 - Washington 104.5%, Winnipeg 104.6%

 

[TheSuperElite]

Pretty clear that you don't even know what PDO is or what the Canucks were scoring the season before last year. Here it is he season before lasts goal totals : Pettersson (37 goals), Kuzmenko (37 goals ), Horvat (31goals), Miller (30 goals)

The Oilers had only 3 30 goal scorers in 2023

So was 2023 just PDO too or have the Canucks core never really had a problem scoring goals ? Why didn't you cry about PDO in 2023 ?

Pretty clear to me that 2023 was a fluke season.

 

[Bank Shot]

Remember that offseason thread about the importance of scoring even strength goals and how Hoglander had as many ES goals last year as Draisaitl?

How is that aging?

Shooting percentage regression is the easiest thing in the world to predict to come back down to earth. Home town fans somehow continue to get fooled by it every season.

 

[sr edler]

Watching post-game interviews with their biggest stars, all of them come across way too self-serious and up-tight. They probably need a good old jokester in that locker-room, to ease some of the built up tension. If you hate a co-worker (or several of them), it helps to laugh at the situation once in a while. Their captain is so soft-spoken, it sounds like he's trying to not wake up newborn kittens. It also probably doesn't help that their GM looks like a constipated accountant.

 

[Cup or Bust]

The Canucks are a good team but I don't think they are at the Cup contender. I think last season kind of overhyped their team a bit, but they are still a good team.

 

[JianYang]

They did a good job keeping their head above water for a while. That was the objective as they had key injuries right from the start of the season, but those key injuries never went away.

Now Hughes is playing with some spider man looking contraption on his hand. Hronek just came back and needs to find his game. We are more than halfway through and demko is still struggling to find his way back.

Then there's the whole Miller pettersson thing.

Lots of adversity this year as opposed to last year but if the team gets in form at the right time .... I wouldn't really want to face them in the first round.

 

[Fishy McScales]

Oh boy, that's rich...the guy who almost single-handedly cost the Oilers two games in that series.

I think that's exactly what he meant. I.e. that if not for Skinner the Oilers might have swept the series.

 

[geebster]

Remember that offseason thread about the importance of scoring even strength goals and how Hoglander had as many ES goals last year as Draisaitl?

How is that aging?

Shooting percentage regression is the easiest thing in the world to predict to come back down to earth. Home town fans somehow continue to get fooled by it every season.

Actually... the biggest drop off in their PDO from last year is save percentage. Their shooting percentage is 7th in the league but their save percent is 25th right now.

But who cares about being right when being wrong fits the narrative, eh?

 

[MessierThanThou]

I think that's exactly what he meant. I.e. that if not for Skinner the Oilers might have swept the series.

If you've read his posts you'd know that's not the case.