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Originally Posted by ricardodw
The Oilers can sleep well knowing they dominated the Fancy stats
CF% 54.6
HDCF% 65.0
xGF% 57.25
Hate to say it but advanced stats are for losers. Oilers basically swept the series if only advanced stats counted in the games outcome.
Vegas finally broke through the fancy stats and dominated the Wild last night as the Wild forced a game 6.
Tampa finally broke through and won fancy stats for the first time in the series lost game the game 4-1 and are headed into game 6
There will be the advanced stats pointing to the Jets losing the next series in 4 games be it against Toronto or even Montreal
PS Toronto has been beating Montreal in Fancy Stats. So the advanced stats guys can point to that and say see we were right |
This is such a bad take.
I get so sick of people pointing to advanced stats as "wrong" or even better "for losers" because they don't line up with the final results.
Interpretations like that are honestly so silly.
Hockey has been a sport since the beginning that sometimes you play well or play better than the opposition and lose. Before we had advanced stats we had shots on goal.
"How can they lose when they out shot the Jets 39-17?" Happens all the time.
Better finish.
Better bounces.
Better goaltending.
It will never be 100% correlated, but it meets the eye test more often than not.
Hellebucyk had a .956 save percentage in the four games. The Oilers probably outplayed the Jets, like the Flames outplayed the Ducks in getting swept four years ago.
They got out goaltended.