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Originally Posted by opendoor
It's actually a decent point. The Oilers got .921 goaltending from Dubnyk and Khabibulin which put them near the top of the league in team sv% yet they finished only one spot above Calgary who only got .889 goaltending.
Unless they're assuming they're going to get that level of goaltending every year (probably not a safe bet given that their next highest team sv% in the last decade was .909), they'll need to greatly improve their shot differential and their offense just to even tread water at 24th in the league. And it's not like they were a victim of bad luck and poor percentages; they had the 9th highest shooting % in the league. With a bit of bad luck and/or poor goaltending they'd have easily been down near the bottom of the league again.
I'm not sure I agree that that's something a new coach is going to fix though.
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Yeah but that's the results of being hemmed in their own end and par for the course with the worst defensive depth in the league.