No conspiracy, perhaps a missed call here and there for both sides.
We had 5 PPs last night to 0 SH.
The series failure is all about goaltending.
Recognizing a limited sample size. We have the last (17th) ranked goalie in the playoffs this year. Oilers have the 3rd ranked goalie. The GSAA is very telling. Elliott has given up 4 more goals than league average for number of shots faced and Talbot has saved 3 goals more than league average for number of shots faced.
If we had Talbot level goaltending in this series we would have given up 7 fewer goals and be leading 3-0 in the series!
I cannot believe our misfortune with goalie signings. Elliott was 0.930 SAA in regular season and 0.921 in playoffs last year. Does make me wonder a bit about our goalie coach.
Blues really got it right with Jake Allen over Elliott it would seem.
Rk Player GA SA SV SV% GAA SO MIN
GSAA
1 Jake Allen 3 117 114 .974 0.91 0 198
5.36
2 Pekka Rinne 2 95 93 .979 0.61 2 197
4.79
3 Cam Talbot 3 83 80 .964 0.98 2 183
2.93
4 MAF 6 109 103 .945 1.87 0 193
1.79
5 Lundqvist 7 118 111 .941 2.16 1 194
1.43
6 Carey Price 5 89 84 .944 1.53 0 196
1.36
7 Bernier 0 16 16 1.000 0.00 0 33
1.14
8 Martin Jones 5 77 72 .935 1.66 0 181
0.50
9 F Andersen 9 120 111 .925 2.47 0 219
-0.42
10 Dubnyk 6 78 72 .923 1.87 0 193
-0.43
11 Holtby 10 116 106 .914 2.74 0 219
-1.71
12 John Gibson 8 85 77 .906 3.22 0 149
-1.92
13 Crawford 9 98 89 .908 2.77 0 195
-2.00
14 Anderson 8 74 66 .892 2.58 0 186
-2.71
15 Tuukka Rask 9 88 79 .898 2.89 0 187
-2.71
16 Bobrovsky 11 107 96 .897 3.49 0 189
-3.35
17 Brian Elliott 11 97 86 .887 3.67 0 180
-4.07
Source:
http://www.hockey-reference.com/play...7_goalies.html