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Originally Posted by 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.
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Exactly luck schmuck, the Oilers are a collection of dumb players, playing dumb and making dumb decisions. Lead by a GM, President of Ops and coaching staff that have been reduced to a bunch fools.
Ference should get himself on a jet as fast as he can out of there. He doesn't belong in that muck of a team.
Sorry no SNL clip I can find it's too bad because it is classic.
The Late John Belushi on the Luck of the Irish...
"Luck? Gimme a break.
I got a friend, his name is Dan Sullivan, he's Irish as they come. We used to drink together a lot. After two drinks, he would look like an Irish pirate. You know?
You think he had luck?
In one day he got his car stolen, and the stupid, he had no insurance, and no license, and he gets locked up for being drunk. And after that, he takes off for someplace like India or Nepal, or someplace like that. And his mother dies, ya know, so they wire him to tell him to come to the funeral. It's his mother's funeral, that's all. And he's in India or Nepal, sitting squat-legged listening to some sacred cow. So he comes back and he gets stopped at U.S. Customs for trafficking illegal drugs, not holding, he's trafficking.
I mean, here's this guy Sullivan, his old lady kicks off, he gets popped at the border and he's sitting on fifty pounds of black Tibetan finger hash and two keys of slam. Now that's not bad luck, that's DUMB luck. I don't think luck has anything to do with it, I don't think he has any brains at all."