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Originally Posted by ComixZone
No, we really didn’t. Markstrom sunk the series against Edmonton, that’s pretty much the truth of it.
On the ice for 7GF and 4GA - those aren’t fancy misleading stats. That’s “oh he was on the ice for nearly double the amount of goals for as goals against.”
If we want to talk about unquantifiable statements, I’d argue that Hanifin and Andersson were the two who struggled without Tanev in the line-up because their roles increased in responsibility that they weren’t ready for (yet)…although that may be entirely quantifiable, but I just haven’t looked.
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Markstrom was bad, but there is a little more to the story than that.
Yes, he was on for 7 goals for and 4 against. But the reason we have stats like xGF is because actual goals have too few occurrences. Think about the 175 ft shot that Andersson scored against Smith. Five Flames get a positive stat for that, and 5 Oilers get a negative stat. Over the course of a season, those things average out. But in 12 games, they don't.
When there are only 11 total events, any stats derived from those events are pretty much meaningless.