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Originally Posted by Bingo
I think luck plays a role, it always does. But you can't be the Oilers and just suggest that it's luck and leave your roster intact after a terrible season.
Hartley's 14-15 Flames were a team that clearly had a lot of good luck. You don't get outplayed as often as they did and get into the playoffs, especially with all those come from behind points.
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That's not how you saw it
back in 2015.
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Originally Posted by Bingo
...the Flames finished the 2013-14 season at a 20-17-1 rate.
Add that to this season and this year’s playoffs and you have a club putting up a 69-49-8 record for 146 points in 126 games, good for a .580 win percentage or a 95 point regular season pace.
That’s 90% of two full NHL seasons of regular season hockey.
They are sustaining this.
Luck doesn’t last two seasons. If you’re lucky it lasts 10 games, maybe a dozen. Not two seasons.
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For you to be right now, you must have been wrong back then, but both the standings and the eye test say it's the other way around.
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Originally Posted by Bingo
But yeah I keep coming back to that off the charts total of shots that missed the net. The Flames of 2017-18 miss the net more than any team has ever missed the net since they started counting in 2018, so 11 seasons x 30 teams is 1st out of 331 outcomes. That's nuts.
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If you take so long setting up your shots that there are several bodies between you and the net, it's going to affect your aim. That's bad hockey, not bad luck.