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Originally Posted by GordonBlue
So much talk about puck luck lately.
If you're relying on getting better puck luck to be a good team, then you're not a good team.
Maybe you are getting puck luck. Maybe if you were not, you'd be missing the net instead of hitting the post.
For the most part, I think it comes down to good players and good teams making their own luck. I bet other teams have just as many slightly missed chances and posts but they make enough other plays to make up for the ones that didn't work out.
How many goals against have nothing to do with the other team getting puck luck but instead are caused by boneheaded plays and bad goaltending?
Puck luck is a myth and used to excuse an under performing team.
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No question they are underperforming, but from what I have seen they are still a good team.
It’s amazing how momentum works moment to moment, period to period, game to game.
The overtime record speaks to itself. These things are unpredictable. I don’t think it’s a systemic issue.
Like I said if Markstrom was even half as good as he was last season this team is likely competing for the division.
The point I’m making is that given the contract status of Huberdeau, Kadri, and Weegar I don’t think selling for picks exclusively is the right move.