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Originally Posted by Goriders
It’s amazing how poorly we do against the oilers.
Doesn’t seem to matter what is going on with both teams. It seems to be in the Flames heads.
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It's really only the last two seasons, and honestly the biggest issue in that time has been goaltending.
As a whole this "core" had done fairly well against the Oilers.
2014-2015: 5-0-0
2015-2016: 3-1-1
2016-2017: 0-3-1
2017-2018: 2-2-1
2018-2019: 2-2-0
2019-2020: 3-1-0
2020-2021: 4-6-0
2021-2022: 0-2-0
So it's been a bit of an issue these last two seasons, but for the 6 seasons before that we were 15-9-3 against the Oilers.
And really these last two seasons are all just goaltending issues and specials teams.
At 5v5 Flames have outplayed the Oilers.
55.2% Corsi For
57.1% xGF
But we have a .871 save percentage against them the last two years, which is just terrible. Saturday night was the perfect example, where the Oilers PP scores 2 goals on really what were plays that weren't amazing PP set ups, just a bit unlucky and Markstrom missed (especially the second one which squeezed through his arm and chest).
Flames really need to understand why Markstrom seems to be struggling on home ice, and during in-division games.