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From Leaf "spy" via Twitter: James Reimer on flight to Washington tonight. J.S. Giguere missed practice Sunday. Questionable for Caps game?.
 
drewser said:
BergerFAN590

From Leaf "spy" via Twitter: James Reimer on flight to Washington tonight. J.S. Giguere missed practice Sunday. Questionable for Caps game?.
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Maybe its a personal matter, doesn't his son/daughter have some serious illness that requires constant hospilization? Or maybe your right it could be a groin injury, who knows. Whatever it is hopefully its nothing serious.
 
Seriously, as much as Giggy has been good for us he needs to be put on the backburner. Just play the f_ck out of the monster, give him the next 20 or so starts, lets see what we really have its not like were making the playoffs anyways at this rate, so lets just go balls in here and maybe just maybe the monster could prove to be elite, its worth the risk and def worth the reward.
 
it's too bad that gus sucks shit too.

i'd love nothing more than for reimer to steal the show, assuming they're smart enough to give him a start.. although i'm not sure if they are because, really, as solid as reimer has been, rynnas is pretty much stealing wins every other game, and looks as ready as anybody.
 
I just wish Jiggy wasn't involved at all, then we could just play all of the kids and let them earn the starting job, without having to rely on one of them being the guy who has to be good.

I have no idea which one is the best of them, but I wouldn't be surprised if was the guy stuck in the ECHL.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
When? He's got an .893 save percentage.
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He's also 6-5-3 as well. LIke I said he's been good, but not great. Back to my point though, its time to give Gustavsson a 20-25 game tryout, and see what he really is, is he a true #1 (ala miller, thomas), is he a 1A kinda guy (Price of 09'), or is he nothing more then a backup. The only way to truly find this out 100% is to let him play a chunk of games, not 1 here or two there, just give him the ball and let him run with it.
 
Records are meaningless as an indictor of performance for goaltenders and pitchers. And that's not even a good record.

LIke I said he's been good, but not great
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No he hasn't. His save percentage ranks 40th out of the 45 goaltenders in the league that qualify in that category, ranking below the immortal Peter Budaj and Johan Hedberg. He's been dreadful and it's shameful that the Leafs continued to start him over Gustavsson (earlier in the season) and ahead of Rynnas and Reimer now.
 
msun30 said:
it's too bad that gus sucks shit too.
How does Gus suck shit? Really, name me one or more games that he has directly cost us. The fact is Gustavsson has been all over the map this season, he's had some blah games, some good ones, and some great ones. The only way to truly find out where he lies, is to give him a legit chance, at least 20 games, this will be the best way to assess what kind of goalie he truly is. One things for sure, he doesnt suck though.
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JaysCyYoung said:
Records are meaningless as an indictor of performance for goaltenders and pitchers. And that's not even a good record.



No he hasn't. His save percentage ranks 40th out of the 45 goaltenders in the league that qualify in that category, ranking below the immortal Peter Budaj and Johan Hedberg. He's been dreadful and it's shameful that the Leafs continued to start him over Gustavsson (earlier in the season) and ahead of Rynnas and Reimer now.
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meh.. giggy played well to start the year. he wasn't outstanding but he was solid (.915ish).

but the wheels came off during those three games before the injury. he hasn't looked good since returning, though.
 
Through the first three or four games I was comfortable with his play given that it was comparable to his performance last season... but his ship just started filling up with water very quickly thereafter.
 
msun30 said:
meh.. giggy played well to start the year. he wasn't outstanding but he was solid (.915ish).

but the wheels came off during those three games before the injury. he hasn't looked good since returning, though.
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I think this injury is a bit more serious then the leafs are letting on to be. Giggy went down for 2 weeks and now is out again. Groin injuries are the worst injury a goalie could have.
 
JaysCyYoung said:
Through the first three or four games I was comfortable with his play given that it was comparable to his performance last season... but his ship just started filling up with water very quickly thereafter.
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nah.. he was bad in the philly game but the leafs couldn't do anything in that game.

there might have been a bad goal here and there but over those first 9 games he was solid... he only allowed more than 3 goals once and held teams to 2 or less on 6 occasions.

he did his part.
 
Gigeure struggles against teams that play an "east-west" game, mainly because he's so slow going left to right/right to left. Opponents know that all they have to do is get giggy moving post to post, and it's pretty much game set match. Giguere is at his best when he plays high shooting teams (ala washington) teams that will just skate down the ice and rip shots at the net. He's very good at challenging the shooters and not leaving many rebounds. He struggles with his lateral movement, and he can be beaten high glove side when he goes down into the butterfly position.
 
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