McJadeddog
Registered User
I was reading on twitter a statistical package that took each games analytics for both teams, ran each game 50o times and predicted who would win each game. Game 2 had us at just over 50% but games 1, 3 and 4 had us over 70%. When you combine all 4 games together it had Winnipeg sweeping at under 5%. Games 1, 3 and 4 we were leading going into the third and game 2 we were tied going into the third. This was probably the weirdest sweep in NHL history with a high probability that we could have swept them as well if we got 1 bounce in each game.
Yeah I don't get how people don't get this. I'm not saying we should have won, we didn't score when we should have (3 OTs), and imploded when we shouldn't have (3rd period of games 3 and 4). So no we shouldn't have swept the series or anything crazy like that. But the Oilers getting swept was some next level, lottery ball bouncing, craziness given how the majority of the games played out. We had better puck possession (by a lot), and more high danger chances (by a lot). We lost the goalie dual, and Helly didn't allow a single "bad goal", and Smith let in probably 2-3 of them. This series should have been 2-2, at absolute worse, after 4 games.
I'm not saying the team doesn't have problems, it most certainly does. There is ZERO chance of this team, as currently built, being a legit cup contender. But they weren't nearly as bad as you would think by looking at the 4-0 series result, or by reading the average HF poster reaction to the series. Get this team 2 legit middle 6 players and they are a team that can do some damage.