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For anyone who's still worried about the Oilers, don't.

They are officially last place in terms of PDO (again)

Meaning they have been the unluckiest team in the league to this point.

Winnipeg unsurprisingly is the luckiest, sporting unsustainably high shooting and save percentages.

Info from DataDrivenHockey on Instagram.
 
^^other teams make their own luck, we often want to rely on it...

Oilers Leafs tonight should be interesting. Predicting 5-3, not sure for who.
 
IanO said:
^^other teams make their own luck, we often want to rely on it...

Oilers Leafs tonight should be interesting. Predicting 5-3, not sure for who.
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You can't rely on something you don't have.

It's not about "making your own luck", it's about statistics. The Oilers have statistically scored fewer goals than they should based on the number of chances they've generated and had more goals scored against them than they should, based on the number of chances they've given up.

It just shows how talented the Oilers are that they're 9-4-1 since the 0-3 start despite having improbably low shooting and save percentages.
 
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IanO said:
Or lucky.🫣🍀
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Consistently outshooting and out chancing your opponents by a third or more (often double), means you should probably win 80% or more of games, still unlucky.

Why try so hard to make it seem like the Oilers are not good? They're an exceptionally good team, and they actually have a pretty good record since the bad start, even if it should be even better.

They'll be just fine and will easily make the playoffs, if they can get 1-2 more saves a game and shoot at a just below league average level (9% instead of like 7-8%), they should top the division. That's really all they need.
 
Are they though? Certainly top end potential for some, but absolutely brutal d-zone plays, low-quality passing for most and poor chemistry.

I think that we do not watch enough top tier teams play and see what good can actually be.
 
IanO said:
Are they though? Certainly top end potential for some, but absolutely brutal d-zone plays, low-quality passing for most and poor chemistry.

I think that we do not watch enough top tier teams play and see what good can actually be.
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The Oilers are easily a top 5 team in the league, probably top 3. The underlying numbers back this up.

Every team makes bad passes every now and then, every team has defensive gaffs every now and then. The numbers do not say that the Oilers give up an inordinate amount of high danger chances, they're actually one of the better teams at preventing them. Their mistakes looks worse because they have goaltending that is not at the same callibre as other roughly similar teams, like Florida or the Rangers, who have Bobrovsky and Shesterkin, two of the best goalies of the decade backstopping them. The Rangers defense for instance 5-on-5 is not good at preventing high danger chances against, but you don't hear anybody complaining about it (apart from Rangers fans complaining about Jacob Trouba), because they have an elite goalie that more often than not cleans up their messes. I don't expect Pickard and Skinner to be Shesterkin, but they've been giving up more goals than they should and that needs to change.

The defense has been okay, just about average it should be better, but the goaltending is a much, MUCH bigger issue.

Colorado has been in a very similar boat to the Oilers this season and it shows in their PDO. They've been shooting lower than they should a Georgiev has been a sieve. The difference is the Oilers are a better team than Colorado overall with much better depth, particularly at the forward position.

On the powerplay, the Oilers have looked a bit out of sorts at points this season, and they're still having some troubles there but it's been getting much better.

The PK has also improved in the last few games.

I'm not interested in continuing this because it feels like arguing with a wall, but advanced stats are meaningful and are an important tool for any team. There's a reason pretty much every team has an analytics department. The eye test is helpful at times, but the eye is biased, cold, hard numbers are not.
 
'The Oilers are easily a top 5 team in the league, probably top 3. The underlying numbers back this up.'

*I love the Oilers

I'd say top 8, but certainly not top 4 (NYR, CAR, Win, Flo, Dal) and if you remove 29/97, a top 16 would be hard to achieve.
 
It's a pointless effort @erudyk_29; you're up against someone who knows everything about everything and never admits errors. Plus all of his outlooks are centered around a negative take on all things great and small (unless of course you're talking about Toronto or Vancouver or maybe anything outside of Edmonton).
 
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