Great our xGF% was almost 65%, doesn’t matter if we’re giving up 9 high danger chances and creating just 10. And this is against the worst offense in the league remember. Unacceptable regardless of goalie performance (which is also unacceptable).
Everyone is agreeing Marky is the single biggest issue, nobody is disputing that. But I’m definitely disputing that we’re a great defensive team that Marky is single-handedly ruining. Consider score adjustments and you’ll see how our HDCA and is average / middle of the pack. Our xGA numbers are great but when we completely break down on the few chances against we have it negates all that great ability. I think our team as a whole is solid defensively, but should be much better. We should not be giving up the quality chances we did yesterday, last week against Detroit, and before the break against Chicago, Columbus etc.
Marky sucks, but the D has been disappointing too. I’m just being realistic that simply replacing Marky with a league average goalie and we still are not good enough to be a real contender
So by one metric we barely beat Philly out, but the other ones (scoring chances, corsi, xGF) just don’t play into it? We dominated in those regards.
And how do score adjustments account for the fact we’ve given up 43 less high danger chances than league average this season? That’s a pretty major discrepancy.
And again, how is this disappointing? Unless you are expecting 1995 devils reincarnation or the bruins of the 1970s this is top tier in the nhl. Almost every significant metric has the flames as top 5 caliber in scoring chances for and against, there is little more our team can do.