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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
That's impressive in a way  .
Like the Oilers last year being last in home PK % since the NHL started recording that stat in 1977 and first on the road.
Sometimes hockey just doesn't make any sense.
One thing that is interesting is that there definitely seem to be coaches that depress 5 on 5 shooting %.
Darryl Sutter looks to be one. The Kings were often bottom five if not last in shot%. Last year free of Sutter they went to 12th.
Todd McLellan as well. Lots of low finishes in shooting % for the Sharks. Oilers in bottom third 2/3 years of his tenure.
I'm not sure about Gulutzan. He hasn't spent long enough in one spot to see a clear pattern.
Bill Peters also looks like on of these guys. Carolina's best Es shooting % as a team was 20th under his watch.
So it'll be interesting this season to see how much of a bounce back if any guys have under Peters. There should be some for sure if they had a historically bad year missing the net, but how much is the question. |
I don't know man, maybe the Oilers had a historically bad PK and ST overall because their personally is pretty much expansion team bad except for McDimple and Draisaitl, and they were being coached by a pee wee coaching staff.
Maybe it wasn't some fluke or statistical anomaly, but a true reflection of years of pissed away draft picks, bad personal decisions and a goalie that final succumbed to shell shock after playing behind a blueline that even in their best year a couple of years ago constantly allowed a steady stream of "This guy scored" type of shot quality.
Maybe the Oilers special teams were bad because the team, organization, management and coaches are just . . . . bad.
Maybe it wasn't an outlier as much as a reflection of the true nature of the Oilers themselves.
And the one thing that comes into play when you talk about a record of patheticness not seen since the 70's is that frankly, records are made to be broken.