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Originally Posted by SebC
It's pretty amazing how bad Tampa's record is for a team with an even goal differential. Every team in the top half of the standings is even or better, while every team in the bottom half is negative, except Tampa. Calgary and Nashville are ahead of them with -29 and -25, respectively.
Expect a bounce-back season from them next year... they're pretty much the opposite of what Florida was last season.
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Tampa is 5 - 15 in one-goal-games this year which is catastrophically bad. Between 2009-10 and 2010-11 the Oilers went a combined 21 - 41 in one-goal-games. So one of the most spectacularly bad teams ever had a .339 winning percentage in one-goal-games whereas this year's Lightning are at .250.
Considering the draft class they're going to be picking high in, the Lightning sure picked the right year to be astonishingly unlucky.
In fact, I just went back and since the last lockout, the worst single year team was the 06-07 Flyers who finished with 54 points and they went 11 - 21 in one-goal-games, which gives them almost exactly the same winning percentage as the 2009-11 Oilers.
So the Lightning have to be simultaneously the luckiest and unluckiest team possibly ever, to end up with such a poor record in close games and potentially be rewarded with such a good player.
If they even reached the appallingly low standards of the worst teams of the last ten years they'd be 7 - 13 and would be sitting with between 40 and 42 points.
We're 9 - 7 in these games this year, and, let's face it, we're awful. If Tampa performed as well as we did in close games, they'd be 11-9 and battling for a playoff spot.