Drivesaitl
Finding Hyman
I was amazed at how much loose pucks just bounce right onto a Vegas stick. Offenisve or defensive zone. Its uncanny. But its continuing to occur in the present series. Not sure if its all luck or just good positional play but Vegas always seem to be where rebounds and bounces are.The unfortunate part is that people point to +/- as drai being bad in the last 4 games but when you have stats like this it highlights the scoring struggle.
It takes someone 50 major contributions to score 5 points but the other team scores 7 points off of your 14 major mistakes, youre not winning. Makes it impossible to break even. I get that team defense plays a part but it seems almost inexplicable how often we dominate and get nothing only to see the other team do a quarter of what we do and score every second shot.
I'm not excusing the play because there were major defensive failures and effort issues but it irritates me that it seems the Oilers have to work 3x harder than their opponent to win games. We have no ability to make our own luck. Vegas played well enough but the amount of bounces they got were pretty sickening.
Vegas get other puck luck too. Look at the first goal tonight. They make that look easy but you wouldn't see that finish again in 20 tries at it.