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The Fantastically Beautiful Joyously Superfun 22-23 Season Celebration Thread

And this is not his first season as a starter. Last year was. And he was doing great till he spiraled out of control, as he did in his prior 2 seasons. He has the ability, but has perhaps struggled mentally to put a full season together. I'm not trying to be a negative nancy.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Completely. But here we have a cheap, young one with more promise than what we tend to usually put in net, so I can enjoy it and hope he's an asshole to Washington by putting it together with us.
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we're on the same page on Sammy. screw that presto guy, he's a Murray truther anyways
 
Preston said:
Not quite random. Only pointing out that he has had hot starts in all 4 seasons of his NHL career. That's it.
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Random in the sense that he's not getting regular work. He's playing one in every 5 games or whatever, which is tough to really gauge and compare to playing almost every game.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Random in the sense that he's not getting regular work. He's playing one in every 5 games or whatever, which is tough to really gauge and compare to playing almost every game.
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It's easier to be a backup than a starter tho.

And again, he was the starter last year.
 
Preston said:
And this is not his first season as a starter. Last year was. And he was doing great till he spiraled out of control, as he did in his prior 2 seasons. He has the ability, but has perhaps struggled mentally to put a full season together. I'm not trying to be a negative nancy.
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Oh, you're trying.
 
Bleedsblue&white said:
Oh, you're trying.
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I'm really not. All I've really wanted was a goalie capable of putting up heaters. His inconsistency as a young goalie is a good thing. I am very encouraged that he has put up stretches of .915+ play. This is way better than someone like Kallgren who is consistently crap. That's why I was fine with Murray and Samsonov and more bullish on them than most.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
How does a backup put up a heater?

And yes, I saw that you said he was a starter for five minutes last year.
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You're not this dense are you? By playing really well in spurts? .915+ over 10-15 game stretches? He has had a whole whack of those stretches throughout his career, something that guys like Kallgren do not have. Very encouraging because it shows he has the ability and his horrendous, catastrophic slumps where he spirals out of control at about the midway point of the season are likely largely mental, which can be grown out of. Toronto is a good market for a guy like him maybe. We're easy on goalies.

Anyway.. Was just pointing out an obvious trend in his 4 year career. My sincerest apologies. Won't happen again.
 
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zeke said:
Because he's played 5gms
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I'm not talking about this year. I was just sharing a career trend. He has a habit of starting off well and ending off poorly. That's it. That's all I've said here. This is a fact and it is being argued with. Bizarro world.
 
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zeke said:
but you used numbers that included this year.
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Remove them then. If I knew how to I would. The trend remains. That's all I've said. His first 10-15 games of every season has been over .910. He just has had consistency issues so far as many younger goalies do.
 
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