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Originally Posted by Bingo

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.

Out goaltended
Out coached
Out captained