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Around the League 2019-2024 Edition

I think I do. But coming back healthy and having load management is different than coming back not fully healthy and having load management.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I think I do. But coming back healthy and having load management is different than coming back not fully healthy and having load management.
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and you are assuming one is the case re Marchy and not the other despite there not being any evidence that I am aware of that supports your assumption!

nowhere did they say he wasn't well enough to play back to back. just that he wouldn't.
 
oscarheyman said:
Canucks floor was still pretty damn low when Demko (or Markstrom for the matter) was putting up 0.915 numbers. :p Granted, now that it's a sub-par save percentage, you see "lottery pick contention".
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You have to truly ice a bad group of skaters to get ~.915 goaltending and not put up 95 points. But having Tyler Myers on your shutdown pair definitely helped that.

Last year's Canucks underline the point I was making. Quinn-OEL-Myers-Hamonic is a grim shit show as a top 4 defensively and the offensive depth fell off of the planet after Boeser. Ended up putting up 92 points with a 82 point roster.
 
CH1 said:
I didn’t even know .915 was that great — I guess it is these days
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For team SV% it's real gud. Only one team had higher than .915 last season, only 3 the season before, 3 again the season before that.

My hopeful goal with the Leafs is .908-.910 or better as a team which would be just a bit above average.
 
I feel like you kinda don’t even see amazing goaltending performances much anymore.

Back in the day, I remember Cujo being a fucking acrobatic wizard almost every game.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
I feel like you kinda don’t even see amazing goaltending performances much anymore.

Back in the day, I remember Cujo being a fucking acrobatic wizard almost every game.
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Were his numbers even good or was it another Grant Fuhr case? Both definitely made saves that looked ridiculous at times.
 
Neurospasm said:
Were his numbers even good or was it another Grant Fuhr case? Both definitely made saves that looked ridiculous at times.
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He wasn’t a bad goalie. It’s just that he was far more often just a slightly above average starter than the MVP candidate he was portrayed as while he was in Toronto.

And he compensated for his lack of sound positioning with great reflexes and acrobatic skill, which probably resulted in more highlight-reel saves than was normal.
 
Cujo looked pretty but was just good not great.

But those 10yrs from Roy through the new millennium definitely saw the disappearance of the standout goalie as all the other goalies caught up technique wise and made it a much more level playing field.

Remember that there's ot even 30 starting goalies and only 10-20 good ones. You take the top 10-20 forwards or dmen and they're all an good.
 
zeke said:
And then miraculously became mediocre the instant he went to an elite wings team.
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He went to an elite Wings team, did fairly better than his last year with us, and then at age 36 blew a tire while still doing better than his final season with us, until age and health took him down.

He was still a fantastic, reliable goalie for us.
 
Yes there are fewer starting goalies than forwards in the NHL but the number of kids throughout the world who actually play goalie is shockingly small compared to forwards. You're selecting from a pool of kids that is 10, 20, 30x smaller than the forward pool.
 
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