You are brain dead if you chose losing!!!
Look at the NYI!! they score a lot and get scored on a lot.
The conversation on what is "the right way" and "the wrong way" has completely flown over your head here.
GF/GA is completely irrelevant. GD (Goal Differential) matters, but more than that are "possession" metrics, like Corsi and Fenwick. These stats measure shots for/shots attempted/blocked shots (in the case of Fenwick) for and against, as a measure of how much time during the game your team has the puck and is shooting it (possession).
"The Right Way" hockey means controlling the puck more than the opponent and thereby ensuring more scoring opportunities, which in turn lead to more goals and thereon to more wins.
"The Wrong Way" hockey is about taking risks like having a forward cheat on zone exits to try and get more breakaways, or slowly coming back on the backcheck hoping the other teammates will cause a turnover and then the "coaster" can get a breakaway.
Another example of bad hockey is "turtling" where the team collapses down-low and blocks shots out the wazoo, hoping to limit shots against to perimeter opportunities that have low scoring potential. Again, this system just hasn't proven itself to be terribly effective, because teams are too good at moving the puck laterally and finding openings.
This reckless, risk-laden hockey has proven time-and-time again that it isn't successful long-term. Teams quickly adapt and bury those systems.
That's why just because a team like the NYI might score a lot and get scored against a lot, it's not really relevant in terms of good or bad hockey. What matters is that they have good possession metrics in the process of getting wins, which shows that they're playing a sustainable hockey system because over a long period of time, their good possession stats should lead to more goals for and more wins, and that's exactly what it is doing (Hazzah, the system works!).
So in conclusion, the Leafs losing right now playing the right way is simply part of the process of developing the right habits and familiarity with playing a good system of hockey. Once players are more familiar with it, they'll start converting the greater shots for to goals, and those goals to wins.
(Just, at this point, it's probably not going to be in time for playoffs.)