[PeteMoss]

The 1983-84 Edmonton Oilers, considered by some to be the best team ever, was merely a middling team that got lucky.
If I’ve gotten your attention and you’re already howling “M-O-R-O-N!” we’re off to a good start. But hear me out, because there’s a point . . .
As everyone in the analytics community knows, shot differential is critical to winning games. Teams that get outshot may do well for a while, but eventually the math catches up with them and they start losing more games than they win.
That Oilers team recorded 2,613 shots for and 2,642 shots against, giving them a shots for percentage (SF%) of 49.7%. To put that number into context, that would have placed them 19th in the league last season, just behind the Philadelphia Flyers and slightly better than the Phoenix Coyotes.

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey...got_lucky.html