The Deserve To Win O’Meter from tonight’s game against Dallas
November 21, 2025
Absolutely bummed we lost, but Otter is just a god I guess.
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Yea that tracks. We ran the show for the entire second.
I’m guessing we’ve been on the other side of this at least a few times this season. Luck cuts both ways unfortunately
Mid goaltending will do that
At this point I expect the Canucks to lose to top 25% teams and wins against mid pack teams are just a bonus.
Morale victory szn
Otter had a good game, but most of the xG we racked up (which is what the meter is based on) to push it this high was on the PP. We actually had less xG than Dallas did at 5v5.
If anything, the fact that we can dominate games territorially like we did in this one, or in the last Chicago game, and still lose, should make it clear that this team just doesn’t have the top-end juice to convert.
It’s the same reason that the Hurricanes have been accused of being ‘analytics frauds’ in the past: they dominate games territorially on a regular basis (which we absolutely do not), racking up xG… but despite that, keep running into a wall in the playoffs, because their lack of game-breaking talent gets exposed at the highest levels.
Dallas has gamebreaking scorers like Robertson, Rantanen, and Johnston, that can allow them to outperform their xG. We don’t, outside of maybe Pettersson. Brock is clutch, but he can’t create his own looks, and he’s not a catch-and-shoot guy either.
We just had a historic (14th highest in history) three game shooting % bender… and came out of it 1-1-1. That speaks volumes.
Deserve to win o meter is so stupid its literally just whoever had more shots
I don’t even care if they lose if they’re playing games like that. Tons of fun to watch.
We about even now
Not a good thing to see when you just woke up and forgot we were playing
It happens. We won or got points out of games we had no business getting not long time ago.
11 comments
Yea that tracks. We ran the show for the entire second.
I’m guessing we’ve been on the other side of this at least a few times this season. Luck cuts both ways unfortunately
Mid goaltending will do that
At this point I expect the Canucks to lose to top 25% teams and wins against mid pack teams are just a bonus.
Morale victory szn
Otter had a good game, but most of the xG we racked up (which is what the meter is based on) to push it this high was on the PP. We actually had less xG than Dallas did at 5v5.
If anything, the fact that we can dominate games territorially like we did in this one, or in the last Chicago game, and still lose, should make it clear that this team just doesn’t have the top-end juice to convert.
It’s the same reason that the Hurricanes have been accused of being ‘analytics frauds’ in the past: they dominate games territorially on a regular basis (which we absolutely do not), racking up xG… but despite that, keep running into a wall in the playoffs, because their lack of game-breaking talent gets exposed at the highest levels.
Dallas has gamebreaking scorers like Robertson, Rantanen, and Johnston, that can allow them to outperform their xG. We don’t, outside of maybe Pettersson. Brock is clutch, but he can’t create his own looks, and he’s not a catch-and-shoot guy either.
We just had a historic (14th highest in history) three game shooting % bender… and came out of it 1-1-1. That speaks volumes.
Deserve to win o meter is so stupid its literally just whoever had more shots
I don’t even care if they lose if they’re playing games like that. Tons of fun to watch.
We about even now
Not a good thing to see when you just woke up and forgot we were playing
It happens. We won or got points out of games we had no business getting not long time ago.