>But the eye test says the Islanders were outplayed for long stretches of their last two games, often playing too deep in their zone and giving up way too many shots. The Islanders failed to hold multi-goal leads in their last two losses, allowing the Hurricanes to score four straight in Saturday night’s 4-3 overtime defeat at UBS Arena and the visiting Red Wings to also work out a 4-3 OT win after trailing by two early in the third period this past Monday.
>And logic suggests this: Good teams can hold leads. Teams that eventually miss the playoffs cannot.
>The analytics were also woefully lopsided. Per NaturalStatTrick.com, the Hurricanes’ Corsi For percentage was 72.66 in all situations while the Islanders languished at 27.34. In the third period, as the Hurricanes held a 19-5 shot advantage in scoring twice to force overtime, the Islanders had a Corsi For percentage of just 19.57.
>Those are literally pond hockey numbers as the big kids play keepaway from the younger players.
>Know what they’re not? Playoff-worthy statistics.
>It’s fair to assume the 35.7 shots on net per game the Islanders are allowing – second only to the 37.5 allowed by the Sharks, who have yet to win a game – is wearing them down in the third period.
Academic-Brush-7797
Not that he’s wrong on the whole, but using Corsi as an argument when you’re playing Carolina is not reasonable at all. They will pretty much always win that stat battle no matter who they play.
No-Ambassador-71
He went for the Ime Udoka approach
HermesTristmegistus
It’s because of juju.
Against the wings, Brendan said the word « shutout » on the broadcast. Within the next ~3 minutes the wings scored twice. You could hear the disgust in Butch’s voice.
Against the canes, the people at UBS did the wave. The fucking wave. What are we doing? Stop it. You might think that the responsibility for how the game goes lies with the players, but you’d be wrong.
It’s because of bad juju. You want to win? Adhere to superstition. Take it to the next level, become a practitioner of voodoo. I’m building a shrine to Noah Dobson in my mom’s basement right now, replete with a wide variety of scented oils and incense.
This is how we win.
TonyKhand0m
[TonyKhand0m]: Agrees that Islanders must improve a trait that quite literally makes them lose games
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Andrew seems really fed up with this team here
>But the eye test says the Islanders were outplayed for long stretches of their last two games, often playing too deep in their zone and giving up way too many shots. The Islanders failed to hold multi-goal leads in their last two losses, allowing the Hurricanes to score four straight in Saturday night’s 4-3 overtime defeat at UBS Arena and the visiting Red Wings to also work out a 4-3 OT win after trailing by two early in the third period this past Monday.
>And logic suggests this: Good teams can hold leads. Teams that eventually miss the playoffs cannot.
>The analytics were also woefully lopsided. Per NaturalStatTrick.com, the Hurricanes’ Corsi For percentage was 72.66 in all situations while the Islanders languished at 27.34. In the third period, as the Hurricanes held a 19-5 shot advantage in scoring twice to force overtime, the Islanders had a Corsi For percentage of just 19.57.
>Those are literally pond hockey numbers as the big kids play keepaway from the younger players.
>Know what they’re not? Playoff-worthy statistics.
>It’s fair to assume the 35.7 shots on net per game the Islanders are allowing – second only to the 37.5 allowed by the Sharks, who have yet to win a game – is wearing them down in the third period.
Not that he’s wrong on the whole, but using Corsi as an argument when you’re playing Carolina is not reasonable at all. They will pretty much always win that stat battle no matter who they play.
He went for the Ime Udoka approach
It’s because of juju.
Against the wings, Brendan said the word « shutout » on the broadcast. Within the next ~3 minutes the wings scored twice. You could hear the disgust in Butch’s voice.
Against the canes, the people at UBS did the wave. The fucking wave. What are we doing? Stop it. You might think that the responsibility for how the game goes lies with the players, but you’d be wrong.
It’s because of bad juju. You want to win? Adhere to superstition. Take it to the next level, become a practitioner of voodoo. I’m building a shrine to Noah Dobson in my mom’s basement right now, replete with a wide variety of scented oils and incense.
This is how we win.
[TonyKhand0m]: Agrees that Islanders must improve a trait that quite literally makes them lose games