[CaptainCrunch]

The Oilers record has little to nothing to do with bad luck.

for every one goal allowed from the goal line they are allowing multiple times more due to lazy play, bad coverage, giving up on the play or just plain inability to execute.

There is too much reliance on advanced Stats, they should go hand in hand with actually watching a team play and understanding how they play. Instead too many people are using it as a substitution to watching a game.

Its a lazy mans way to make themselves look smart.

I mean the whole possession thing is kind of ridiculous. If you watch the Flames they don't possess for long periods of time in the offensive zone because they score more often on the rush or with a quick transition, or whatever. So some team comes down to the Flames end and grinds in the corners and does some perimeter stuff for 20 seconds, and the Flames turn it over and a defenseman creates a 2 on one and Calgary scores in about 8 seconds. Well the team with possession didn't get a chance but got a punch of offensive zone time and the Flames get punished statistically for being efficient.

If you want possession stats to be properly analyzed maybe they should be combined with average time to score on possession or chances generated per possession cycle.

But the advanced stats are goofy when they say that the Oilers are merely unlucky. I don't see anything unlucky about their game but I do see a ton of deserved results.