Goose wrote on Mon, 07 January 2019 09:47

RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 07 January 2019 08:00 Big win for the Oilers and a must have. They need another one. For the game, I really don't put a lot of stock into shots, I think the amount of good scoring chances are more important. The Oilers scored 4 goals, without Gibson being good, they easily have way more. I thought Talbot played really well but I felt the Oilers have more good scoring chances than the Ducks. When a team brings the puck into your zone and fires a long range shot at your goal that has little chance of going in. Yes that counts as a shot on goal and yes that is going to hurt your overall corsi because it is a shot attempt but does it mean much if it has next to no chance of going in? Not really in my opinion. One question I have is who to start next game. Usually you automatically start the goalie who got a shutout BUT in the case of the Oilers lately, it sure seems like every time a goalie has a good game and they get the next start, they crap the bed. I would lean to Talbot strictly because he got the shutout but they NEED these 2 guys to get on a roll. For what it's worth, naturalstattrick had scoring chances at 5x5 at 34/23 in favour of the Ducks. I think it's also noteworthy that the Ducks are dead last in the league in shots/game. I don't want to dump on a win, but I don't think this is a case of one team just firing shots from the blue line all night, and the other team getting all the good chances. Here's the heat map from naturalstattrick: Yes, Ducks also had some shots from farther out, but there's also a lot from between the faceoff dots and in. Overall, I think this game was a lot more even than the score showed, and that Talbot was the difference. http://naturalstattrick.com/game.php?season=20182019&gam e=20651

Think the game was pretty even until we had a decent lead. We got the more dangerous chances in the 1st I believe, after some early stink.

No doubt goalies are gonna have to be on their games for this team to have any hope. Not gonna be often, if at all, that we can outscore our problems.

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