guymez
The Seldom Seen Kid
- Mar 3, 2004
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As hard as it is to accept (for me as well)...the Canucks are a very good team. You dont remain at or near the top of the NHL standings for half a season unless you are a very good team.It's the breakdowns. Boston has insane PDO for the same reason. Stats will show high danger chances, saves, shots and goals, but not what led to them
The Canucks are not Maple Leafs high PDO, they are Nashville or Boston. When the Oiler's or Leaf's PDO is wonky, they are often playing on the outside. Early this season the Oilers were destroying nothing but the shot clock, bad shooting luck or playing on the outside? Suddenly the goals are going in and we are getting saves, it's all correlated, and the Canucks have been playing the right way all season.
They will in all likelyhood finish first in the Pacific and thats fine by me.
My hope is that the Oilers pass Vegas and get home ice in the playoffs against Vegas.
Let Vancouver play LA (a team built for the playoffs) and see how that works out for them.
Meanwhile the Oilers dont have to burn themselves out trying to finish first in the division.