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Originally Posted by transplant99
One good year...well 75% of one year anyhow, that being the year before last
Remember last season they were in a dogfight to make the playoffs when covid stopped things and the only team among those in a PO position to have a negative goal differential IIRC....and the year before the great 75% of the season? Missed all together.
Just the reality of things.
And for the record, though I put the majority of the blame on the players, they are not alone. Treliving is a huge part of it too...this team is so poorly constructed its sad and i am a BT guy.
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They didn’t miss the playoffs in 17-18 because this core played poorly though.
They missed the playoffs because they shot 7.83% (29th) and because they had bad goaltending (.905 - 21st)
Overall that team drove possession, generated quality and limited chances.
Corsi For %: 53.1% (2nd)
xGF%: 51.4 (9th)
HDCF%: 54.1% (4th)
HDCF/60: 12.87 (2nd)
HDCA/60: 10.9 (12th)
The fact that they were as close as they were and finished 20th with a .512 points percentage was actually pretty remarkable in retrospect because usually if you have that mix of shooting percentage and save percentage you are a bottom 5 team.
IIRC I was actually a pretty big Gulutzan defender at that time and still think he was somewhat unfairly treated for what was a combination of bad shooting luck and poor goaltending. He made his mistakes like being adamant to play Brodie on the left side, but overall he had this team playing strong structured hockey, and had is team in much better shape than Ward has this team.
If Ward had that shooting percentage and save percentage mix this year we’d be 31st for sure.