the record doesn't mean ****. nashville, vegas and washington dominated us and those teams are contenders + washington. if the leafs want to prove that they're elite, they gotta beat the contending teams. we beat the jets big because they had mason in net. change that to hellebyuk and we'd lose. we only beat nashville because of a skills competition. sure the game was close against tampa, but we were outworked by them, what a surprise there. the boston games we were outplayed and relied on mcelhinney to save us in the 2nd meeting. we aren't a contender by any means. we're close but not there yet
5v5 Score adjusted
TBL: 1gms, 37.5cf%, 36.7scf%, 33.2hdcf%
BOS: 3gms, 44.0cf%, 41.4scf%, 31.6hdcf%
NSH: 1gms, 39.2cf%, 32.2scf%, 42.7hdcf%
VGK: 2gms, 46.1cf%, 42.7scf%, 50.9hdcf%
we've definitely been in tough against the very best/hottest teams (contenders?)...
WPG: 1gms, 56.5cf%, 62.7scf%, 54.7hdcf%
WSH: 2gms, 54.6cf%, 61.2scf%, 68.7hdcf%
DAL: 1gms, 47.71cf%, 55.9scf%, 56.6hdcf%
STL: 2gms, 45.6cf%, 42.6scf%, 42.1hdcf%
SJS: 2gms, 48.6cf%, 50.1scf%, 45.7hdcf%
...but we've handled the rest of the top 10 (near-contenders?) well...
LAK: 2gms, 50.9cf%, 52.0scf%, 62.6hdcf%
MIN: 2gms, 48.6cf%, 45.7scf%, 37.2hdcf%
CGY: 2gms, 50.4cf%, 56.5scf%, 43.0hdcf%
COL: 2gms, 50.5cf%, 50.2scf%, 49.4hdcf%
NJD: 2gms, 50.7cf%, 53.5scf%, 55.7hdcf%
...as well as the rest of the teams above the bubble at the moment.
it'll be interesting to see how we handle the last 5gms we play against TB/BOS/NSH.