Teams have been outshooting teams for decades yet losing due to a hot goalie.
This can be even more apparent as in todays NHL the best team doesn't always win. It's what happens when there's parity. Game's are often a coin flip.
Jet's lost 4 straight, 3-1, 4-2, 3-2, 2-1. A lucky bounce, a mental lapse, a fanned shot & a double deflection are the easy plays to point out on the defensive side. On the offensive side we ran into Fleury.
Of course there's no consolation in these facts. Sometimes you play well & you lose .
I watched a bit of the VGK/Caps game last night. They are in the same boat we were (from the little I watched). It's pretty much lucky bounces and sticks. We were both robbed of goals or at least very high probability of goals by a VGK stick in the lane or a leg or something. It seems that unless they have magic sticks, they are getting lucky. Missed open nets are another observation, Caps (like us) had a golden opportunity to tie it up last night with a wide open net and the magic stick just touched the puck.
Then the goalie stick knob, and bounces over the stick, off the ref etc.
They just seem to be on a very lucky roll right now. Of course no one is really hitting them and making them look over their shoulders either. We stopped when our series started with them, and it looked like the Caps stopped as well. Not sure why?