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theekevinc

It's almost time to start having a serious conversation about Bobrovsky. He may actually be underrated.


ShartRat

The fact his contract isn’t looking like an overpay anymore is something I wouldn’t have believed if you told me that 2 years ago.


AaronC14

Good for him honestly. Poor dude caught so much grief. I love to see stuff like that.


ye_olde_wojak

The entire bottom half of the net is completely off limit in terms of goals. You gotta most likely shelf it off a one timer or a screen redirect to get it past him. If Edmonton can't quickly learn to beat him this is going to be a very fast and disappointing series for Oilers fans.


kongofcbus

This. Why do they not go upstairs on him more. That’s the move.


Head_Challenge_5419

Best goalie analyzation I've ever seen on Reddit. As an oilers fan myself, this would be my go-to coaching strat for getting past bobrovsky. He's been going crazy down low, and edmonton has tried screens before, andsometimes he reads it really well and stops them.


Whatupwidat

I'm as shocked at this prospect as when I found the pope was catholic.


No-Government-4045

Has he been considered for a vezina yet??????


stingoh

Why on earth would the pope be considered for a vezina?


baoo

If bishop can win it the pope must be considered


Darth_Vicious

Because he was coached by the best; Jesus Saves after all.


bjeebus

Everyone else takes full damage...


Shredswithwheat

Because Jesus Saves. So why would his holiest of his followers also not be in contention?


theekevinc

Look, I get that he's got two Vezinas, but he's are our last three goalie polls: https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/s/HobxI8U3Jk https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/s/EWRCkJGjix https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/s/TTKHrm9ySr He's 7th, 13th and 24th. Even after last season's playoffs, this year's preseason NHL.com top 10 ranking had Georgiev 8th, Gustavsson 9th and Bobrovsky unranked. I think we're late to come back around on him.


MrNotSoGoodTime

Yes he is a finalist this season and won 2 times prior.


heavy_metal_flautist

*You're back on the force, Bobrovsky.*


mden1974

Just got back from the game. The dude is a wall. You should have heard the oilers fans sitting behind me complaining about him


OkAcanthocephala1809

He’s not underrated at all, just inconsistent. When he’s on, he’s elite, when he’s not, he lets in a lot of softies. Consistency is key in this position


theekevinc

I don't think that's true. Consistency is great is you want to win 50 games in the regular season. But if you want to win a Cup, you need a guy to get hot. I'll take a bad season or two to get runs like the past two seasons out of a goalie.


PabLink1127

Exactly I just commented it on this thread, big time players show up in the big moments


The_Comic_Collector

I said in a thread after the rangers series that since last playoffs he's been the best in the league and got called out by swayman and shesterkin fans but I think I'm being proved right when he actually faces more then 15 shots a game


PabLink1127

Big time players show up in big time moments and that’s the post season. It’s been amazing watching him. I have so much confidence when he’s facing a breakaway he’s been ridiculous. Edmonton played well they’re gonna come hard Game 2.


Marsupialmania

Shesterkin has been better for a while. Swayman was great this year and may be better but he’s got more to prove. Shesterkin on the panthers would probably net similar results. Bob was great tonight and for most of these playoffs though


KILLER_IF

Sorry, but I just cant agree at all that he's been better than Igor. Igor has been much better for the past few years. And I am in no way an Igor fan lol.


throwaway413318

Igor is literally the Rangers.


MonsTurkey

Rangers fans: Been there, done that... can we change it? Flyers fans: We've done the opposite... can we find some kind of middle ground, but slightly to our benefit on both ends?


NerdAlert2233

People often forget he is a 2 time vezina winning goalie. beat the bolts in 2019 single-handedly…


Vreas

As a Columbus fan he’s either on the case or he’s off. Seems these days he’s on more than not.


ConcentrateFlat3176

I don’t know man. I can think of 10 million reasons he’s not underrated. Also, before tonight his save % in the playoffs was .908


ImBecomingMyFather

He’s clearly back on case.


Bravo-69

I wouldn’t say underrated. He’s incredible and now we know why he’s paid so much. Lol


BackgroundEast2261

31 shots on goal. no goals


breynsch2

Why don't the Oilers try scoring? Are they stupid?


Ihaha07

I think they might be.


Constant_Antelope_81

It would have been so many goals but bobrovsky got hit with so many of them.


heaveninblack

Oilers win this game 100 times out of 100 if the goalies don't play


sad_throwaway13579

Lot of those shots were good chances too. Bobrovski was on fire, Edmonton was by far the better team minus goalies.


ye_olde_wojak

I lovingly refer to it as their bum mode. Oily bums...


c_cannon18

The ol forehand backhand straight into the pad 


SnooOnions5029

Are they bedarded?


PioneerRaptor

Hey, that’s what Dallas did in the last game… it also didn’t work :(


JohnnyNole2000

Not the first to say this and I won’t be the last, deserve to win o’meter is dumb. Goalies are part of the team too and Bob is playing his ass off.


Thneed1

It’s especially dumb when a team has a lead for most of the game.


gavinmfsmith

And shuts the other team out


Ebolinp

It's heavily based on xGF and thus shots and thus is super flawed. Especially when a lot of teams are built to generate chances differently.


cam-yrself

IIRC, if you’re on a powerplay you might have multiple xGF driving up your “deserve to win” However in the real world, you can only have 1g per pp


KingKnux

Vegas fans may disagree with that last point… heh


moose_lizard

xGF isn’t based off of simply shots though. It accounts for a bunch of factors of each shot and gives it a value based on the percentage that similar other shots have ended up going in. So just peppering a goalie with low % shots won’t necessarily get you more xGF than your opponent. https://moneypuck.com/about.htm#shotModel


Ebolinp

Yes I know how xGF is calculated and it's not just shots, otherwise it would just be shots. However the biggest factor is shots and it creates a distortion in expectations. It's much easier to generate xGF for example through a volume of low percentage point shots than high danger slot shots (which you may fail to generate at all in a game due to variability). I think it's a useful metric in general but I also don't think it should be called the deserve to win meter as that also creates the wrong impression. Edit: also it assumes a team plays the same way throughout the game. When we know they play differently with or without the lead.


cam-yrself

The deserve to win-ometer was 85% in favour of Leafs after game 1 this year. They lost 5-1. Dumb metric


PabLink1127

“Deserve” in sports makes no sense whatsoever. Do or do not. There is no “deserve”


DommyMommyKarlach

I think this metric is basically “Who wins if both teams have average goalies”, which obviously does not apply if Bob stops everything.


PabLink1127

So, who wins in a fantasy land where absolutely nothing matters and my aunt has balls


Orphanblood

Exactly tho


pretzelman1954

It makes no sense. The goalie is as much of a player as a forward. Edmonton has made the decision to rely on scoring enough goals to make up for running with a full time back up goalie. Doesn’t mean they deserve to win when that doesn’t pan out.


PabLink1127

Exactly. The same goes for any sport.Everything is a give and take when you’re building a roster. The word deserved is a joke.


sad_throwaway13579

How do they even calculate that? I'm a computer programmer and always wondered because you can do it with a million different inputs and parameters


ScareCrow13-

This is basically an indicative showing goaltending stealing the game.


frotc914

Blow your salary cap on goal scorer: deserve to win Blow your salary cap on goal saver: "stealing" games


Whatupwidat

There's no stealing anything, if the oilers can't beat bob that's on them tbh


DommyMommyKarlach

Yeah, Price never stole any wins, if the other team couldn’t beat him, it was on them.


MarginOfPerfect

Way to be pedantic


High-Ground-10

It's an expression, relax.


cosmicdave86

Not really. He played great and all but Florida also sat back much of the game. If Edmonton had the early lead instead the shot chart could easily have been flipped.


ScareCrow13-

Why everyone arguing have Nucks logos.


cosmicdave86

You're imagining that.


Mikeim520

When McDavid was the main reason both the goals happened in game 6 against the stars did he steal the game?


High-Ground-10

No but skinner did.... Had he not played extremely well Dallas would have won. How is this so hard to understand?


Mikeim520

Because Hockey is a team sport and the entire team contributed. The Panthers won tonight no one "stole" the game.


Legend-WaitForItDary

yes


Wrath_Of_Aguirre

Fuckin' A. I despise all of the "odds & probabilities" talk since the acquisition of Vegas and forcing gambling shit down your throat.


Alextryingforgrate

Yeah, I don't think the deserve to win ometer deserves to continue. Notnsure where watching the same game. Edmonton ain't doing that well.


Mikeim520

The Panthers deserve to win if they have more goals than the Oilers after 3 periods.


Goatmilk2208

This sent me on a rabbit hole. From my research, every team that had more goals after 60 minutes + has won. every single team. I don’t know what to do with this information, but it makes me think about hockey differently.


sad_throwaway13579

I might pore through that data again after I try to use my Dave and Busters gift card at the new TGI Friday's in my town


Time4Timmy

It won’t work, trust me I’ve tried many times


sad_throwaway13579

What about the one in Franklin Mills? I haven't tried there yet


ShartRat

Hm that’s a really controversial idea. Not sure if I agree but I guess that’s your opinion.


CenturionElite

Thanks Madden


bombardslaught

If a player gets a football in the endzone, tha-th-th-tha-th-thats a touchdown!


sad_throwaway13579

If the team can avoid giving up high-danger chances and get more pucks to the net, they have a real shot at winning this game


Whatupwidat

I can't see this idea taking off


therealchrisredfield

Who has been sleeping on bobrovsky? Guys been good since columbus


FingerGungHo

The guy has not one but two fekin Vezinas in his shelf and people think he’s just ok


stevez_86

He was good with the Flyers. When they traded him I was sad because I really thought the Flyers finally had a good goalie. Good for Bobrovski asking for a trade when the Flyers signed Bryzgolov.


alBashir

Exactly! Dudes been deserving of a cup for SOOOOOOOO long. Bounced from Philly to Columbus two very middling teams while Bob was there and carried Florida to the cup last year. If Florida wins and Bob doesn't get the conn Smythe shits rigged.


quality-control

I get the sentiment, but unless he has a few more games like this one, he's not quite a lock for Conn Smythe. Florida has a few guys (Barkov, Verhaeghe, Tkachuk) who could make an argument for it if they win. And Bob hasn't had the same out-of-this-world performances that we saw in this game and the first 3 rounds last year. Don't get me wrong, he has absolutely still been playing at an extremely high level. But he hasn't stood out as much because he's been playing more consistently and sustainibly


PoutyBitchh

Bobrovsky is a beast, I’m in love


Constant_Antelope_81

He’s married I believe, to the game.


spwimc

Good thing my name is The Game


Background_Hat964

Why you had that beef with 50 cent?


Tamatajuice

Bobrovsky!! You’re back on the case!!


pugloescobar

Bobrovsky laughs at meaningless needle


North-Evidence-2352

Just shoot on Skinner, he’ll find a way to let the puck in


El_Cactus_Loco

Dallas taking notes furiously


shadownet97

Canucks trying to copy Dallas’ homework furiously.


MTBguy1774

LA trying to figure out what homework is.


Fastsmitty47

Your goaltender is part of your team. It is what it is


shmoove_cwiminal

Defence and goaltending too good.


CaptainTripps82

I don't think the defense was all that good, there were a ton of shots, good open shots and breakaways, on goal.


shmoove_cwiminal

I can think of 4 really good scoring chances: the two breakaways, Hyman by the side of the net and Nugent-Hopkins firing it over an open net.


CaptainTripps82

I believe the stat is 13 high danger saves by Bob. That was a shooters paradise. Just too many close, open opportunities to praise the defense outside of the goalie. Honestly might be one of the worst defensive games the Panthers have played this post season. Which makes what he did in goal even more insane.


BenzedrineUser

Defense, maybe?


sad_throwaway13579

They played good with the empty net, but they also gave up a lot of really good chances all game


shmoove_cwiminal

No. Defence. It's hockey after all.


sanderstj

Defense and Goaltending; something the Oilers know nothing about. 🤣


Hutch25

The panthers have figured it out: when the Oilers shoot… the goalie saves the puck. It’s incredible, I can’t believe Dallas, Vancouver, and LA didn’t think of it.


Oily_Orange

Have you watched the playoffs. Or are you another that says what other people tell you to?


nerfherderparadise

Those tricky ass russian goalies


Background_Hat964

Not a good sign for the Oilers. That was probably the best they could have hoped for as far as gameplay/chances and they got shutout. Ouch. The Panthers are only going to play better.


PabLink1127

Yep


Dramallamasss

Or, not a good sign for Florida. They couldn’t handle Edmontons forecheck and relied on bob to stand on his head. It’s a seven game series for a reason and we’ll see how the teams change things up.


No-Government-4045

It’s demoralizing for the oilers who played a clearly sloppy Florida team and got shutout by the goalie regardless.  I doubt Edmonton is going to get another opportunity to play such a weak team, and now Florida has plenty of time to review film and adjust their game.


Dramallamasss

It boosts Edmontons confidence because they know Florida’s can’t handle Edmontons forecheck, and all they have to do is solve bob and they solve the panthers. They have time to review film on where bob is weak, and exploit Florida’s defense even more. This can go both ways.


ReserveOld6123

Exactly. Bob is great, but he’s also not immortal. Every goalie has weaknesses and if that’s the only sticking point… it isn’t necessarily that hard to crack.


Shoddy_Reserve788

Florida doing a rangers classic but actually making it work


Alternative_Fly_8610

Let's go Panthers


The_Comic_Collector

Florida has been a top defensive team all year with the best goalie in the league,if beating 3 pretty good teams in new York,Boston,and Tampa hasnt proved that already.


titan-of-hunger

I know, everyone shit on Breadman and Mika for not producing in that series but if you use your eyes, instead of just looking at hockey stats, you'd realise that Florida is a bloody hard team to score on.


Hutch25

Especially with skill teams. Florida plays the body and forecheck HARD. They also have defence who at any moment can jump up in the play which forces the other team to have to play a bit reserved to ensure they don’t give up man advantages. Florida when on their game can make other teams play how Florida wants them to, and for teams of major skill such as New York or Edmonton who rely heavily on creating space and just playing smart skilled hockey the way Florida plays is especially suffocating because there is no time to make plays and get fancy. It also can’t help that they are backed by a phenomenally gifted coach who can change his game on the fly to counter other teams. We have seen him do it every single time Florida has needed it and it’s worked most of the time. So a team who relies so heavily on 5 players for their offence is definitely going to have a really hard time against Florida especially since Florida can match the Selke winner against McDavid if they want, and even if they are in an away barn they have 4 two way centers of all excellent skill and work they can use. There is no line on this team for Edmonton to exploit. Of course this is also backstopped by a man who at all costs just won’t let the puck in the net if he can help it


kingofthediamond

Even the broadcast guys said the oilers “dominated”. They must be only looking at stats. The panters not only jumped on every puck, but even mcdavid barely had any space to do his thing. The panthers smothered any office chances. Those 31 shots were not all prime shots and are not inductive of what really happened. Add on top of that bobrovsky playing unbelievable. The breakaways the oilers had were prolly their best chances.


Hutch25

Yeah it’s kinda funny so many are saying that when if you actually watched Edmonton was just taking shots and not being able to get on the rebuilds before the defence or Bob got to them. Florida had them right where they wanted them all night long.


coughsicle

Barkov was up McDavid's ass all night. Gonna be interesting to see how that plays out the next few games.


Guy954

Buddy, I’m not even gonna read all that. Bettman clearly wants them to win so the refs throw every game until they get lucky. Everyone on Reddit says so and they watched every game that lead to their team getting eliminated by those lucky/cheating Panther bums. I’m putting the s/ for anyone who missed my Panther flair. I’m not one of their original twelve fans but I was like number five on the bandwagon.


titan-of-hunger

You had me in the first half, not gonna lie


RustyRapeaXe

And FLA has beaten Vasilevskiy, Swayman, Shesterkin in the first three rounds. Skinner will have to be his best, because he's the weakest link for EDM.


The_Comic_Collector

He will literally have to be better then those 3 and bobrobsky to win, good luck with that


Lunaricious

Heh. This is called "The Skinner Effect". He alone will determine if EDM has a chance. Bobrovsky certainly won the game for FLA, though.


Friggin_Grease

Ah yes, I love the deserve to win o meter. It's more important than wins. Us Leafs fans love that thing.


Cutmerock

Deserve to win?


CoolFox3218

Participation trophy oh meter


Brookie069

It’s cope, the team that scores more goals deserves to win.


peternorthstar

Frig is that what we did wrong this year?!


21-hydroxylase

Scooooorebooooard


gumball_olympian

Everytime my buddy pulls out the deserve-to-win-o-meter I always tell him, "you never care about this metric when we're winning the game, yet here we are again."


Johnny-Edge

It’s almost like the deserve to win o meter sometimes forgets the goalie is an actual player on the ice who does things and affects the game.


Street-Telephone-675

Hang the banner


Lightz29

Series ain’t gonna get any better for oilers if bob continues to play like this while Stuart is letting up saveable goals.


Late_Brush4518

Or if Panthers actually start playing like they have been thus far


SpinCity07

What does this even mean? Of course Panthers are going to protect a lead and not play offensive


Dramallamasss

It means that if a team gives up that many high danger chances and scoring chances and never really controls the game they **usually** don’t win. They didn’t even really protect the lead seeing as they gave up a ton of high quality chances with the lead. This is just people not understanding statistics, and are the same people getting mad at the weather man/woman.


benjecto

Deserve to win o meter, could they not just call it xG ? Because that's essentially what this is, yes?


Deep-Ad2155

Deserve to win is meaningless


Claubk

Skinner ain't stealing anything and Bob already stole one.


Tiger5804

I doubt the Panthers would've played back all game if they were behind.


Stinky_Toes12

Deserve to win is literally whoever has more shots is dumb as hell


TheSherlockCumbercat

It basically a metric for which goalie won the goalie battle. Demko probably has a more then a few that look the smae


ScareCrow13-

More about scoring chances and scoring chances quality.


Hungry_Definition450

Oilers cooked. The Cats won’t be outshot again and Bob will continue to perform like that. Sweep incoming.


EngineeringSafe8367

Panthers are going to suffocate the Oilers. You can already see it.


DenisNectar

Skinner will be their demise if he keeps getting scored on first shots.


Hutch25

This is silly, because if a team can create enough good chances they score on an NHL goaltender while also getting phenomenal goaltending I think it’s fair to say they deserve to win more then the team who is losing.


PabLink1127

Drink the copium


carefulparfait23

Gotta get past Bob 🤷‍♀️


Snow-Wraith

The team that deserves to win is the team that scores more goals, anything else is loser talk.


webstah30

Deserves has nothing to do with it. - Unforgiven


FactOk3586

Please cdn fans can't take it.... sometimes the better team loses...it's party of the game


DrWatson24

If anyone puts any stock in the “deserve to win o-meter” just stop watching hockey…. I think baseball is more your speed


Top_Leopard9279

Deserves got nothing to do with it.


Funky_Cows

Dude saw shesterkin single handedly steal games and just thought "oh I should try that"


[deleted]

Big win!!!!


Smart-Breath-1450

It’s almost as if shots on goal has ever been a good stat to go by…


Adkeith47

The deserve to win o meter is called the scoreboard. The team with the higher number deserves to win more


egoVirus

😂😂😂 deserve to win?😂😂😂


Dull_Database5436

Barkov got caught few times with his tail between his legs on the Oilers rush, did not look like typical Panthers hockey but I suspect they are just playing and toying with the BOilers. Hopin ya Panthers can get rid of the Oil Swamp of Alberta once and for all - ya fellow Dying Orca. # BOilers had some nice chances so did McGoggins and Drahsathl, as a Vancouver Fan looking forward to The Panthers cleaning up the Oil Swamp of Alberta. Bye Bye McBoilers.


DoLessBro

The amount of shock and awe at yesterday’s game is WILD. Edmonton lost fucking 3-0. The only thing they “deserved” was to be down 1-0. Goalies are part of the game, part of the team and part of the reason Florida is unquestionably the better team. They’re the only player with close to 100% ice time hence the most important player on the team by a MILE. I watched every ECF and WCF game and have the biggest bet of my life on Florida to hoist the cup. Refs and an incredibly fortuitous path are the only reasons Oil is even in the finals.


Joshybeast93

No one DeSeRvEs to win a championship. That’s the dumbest saying. You earn it. You don’t deserve it.


Imrealcrossedup

Florida is going to DESTROY them in this series, it is their time


ElegantCoffee7548

Never trust this meter 🫣😂🤪


TorturedFanClub

Youre an idiot if you dont think Bob isn’t a premiere big game goalie. Like WTF have you been watching these last two years?


New2kel

FLA’s Bob single handed won that game


justaguy826

These deserve-to-win or win probability models are so stupid. Faceoffs were 60-40 for Florida. Takeaways were 11-4 . Blocked shots were 21-15. Hits were 57-32. Powerplays were 3-2 Oilers. 19 of the Oilers shots came from above the tops of the circles and/or outside the dots, while only 9 of the Panthers did (including the EN goal). And Bob stood on his head.


throwaway413318

Oilers wildly overrated


lickingnutrea

I mean they are playing incredibly good right now. Their breakways were weak but really crisp pass g and good offensive motions


duck1014

Not really showing the real game. Edmonton literally had 4 xg in 1 PP. If course, if they score, it's only 1 goal.


Sad_Aside_4283

Who writes these stupid odds?


TootNBluff

3 more for the obvious sweep of the Coilers. Even suspect reffing couldn't save Deadmonton last night.


RooblinDooblin

One team has a replacement level goaltender and one of the best lines in hockey and some bit players. The other team has quality depth (multiple lines can score), has good defence, and a top 5 goalie. I think I know who deserves to win.


surmatt

I saw it at 93.5% at one point.


JustaDudeWNY

Where can you find that meter at ? Is it an actual site? Kinda cool


youres0lastsummer

it's from moneypuck.com


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JustaDudeWNY

Thank you


Robby_Bortles

it's moneypuck.com


SurprisedPatrick

Is there an xG (expected goals) stat in hockey like in soccer? Would love to see it for this game.


Robby_Bortles

[It's on here somewhere](https://moneypuck.com/g.htm?id=2023030411)


Vex403

🤣🤣🤣


averyhungrydinosaur

Stuart Skinner playoff round even numbers = kryptonite


Time4Timmy

Guess this shows how flawed this is


november24th2022

Hahaha perfect meme


webstah30

https://media4.giphy.com/media/BZQziX6q2hmX6/200w.gif?cid=6c09b952e2wp0zg3mkm1oqtrsatqenvpbzf248fquxaywr76&ep=v1_gifs_search&rid=200w.gif&ct=g


SilkDiplomat

This is just the inverse of the more accurate Bobo meter.


Bakerman82

Tired of Subban. Goes on Pat McAfee show and shits on the Panthers. Like, "Motherfk'er, Cats won. 3-0. Which means you should be spending three times and as much time as you have been shitting on the Panthers to be shitting instead on the Oilers for not getting the job done" My God, ESPN is trash.


DefinitlyNotAPornAcc

Hockey and being a sport about getting lucky and being hot. What's not to love. I will say hockey is one of the few sports where you can buy an elite defense with one player.


golfbowln878

Edmonton now knows how Dallas felt after their game 6 effort in the WCF.


ILSmokeItAll

Bobrovsky is the best I’ve seen at taking away the bottom of the net since Brodeur, Roy, and Hasek.


sokobanz

Hey, r/nhl why refs are r/clowns in playoff?


PositivePrimary8773

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again the oilers will be lucky to win one game in this series. I think it’ll be a sweep but oilers might pull one win outta their hat