I needed to read this. I missed the second last night, so I woke up pretty down on Pogge. Hope is not dead!

Pogge has the skill set. He just needs to work out some bad habits and get on that glove hand, wear a 5lbs weight on that wrist or whatever. Every goalie lets in at least one goal every game and a half to two games, So I’m not worried bout em. Especially by a rookie with less than 10 NHL games under his belt

I wonder if they will make him the de facto starter before year’s end.

WCH is just straight up making crap up about the Leafs being in the hunt for Backstrom at the deadline. Cause teams in a playoff chase always deal their MVP.

It did get my hopes up though, although the Leafs should just probably never trade for a goalie again.

It’s not like we’re going to be winning the cup this year anyway – let’s try to develop Pogge as best as we can – especially since Joseph will likely retire after this year, which means that there is a limited period of time in which he can teach Pogge – may as well use it.

Pogge looked bloody awful on three of the four goals last night. He was too deep in his net on the first one, and the third one was a complete joke, which essentially ended the game. His rebound control on the fourth goal was Raycroftian.

Very disappointing.

He really does not look ready. Trial by fire, I guess.

Man. We suck.

I’ll say it again: the sample size here is way too small.

Pogge may turn out to be a complete bust, but there’s no harm in giving him the majority of the starts down the stretch to see what he’s capable of. Best case scenario, he makes the adjustment to the NHL game; worst case scenario, he loses every start and the Leafs chase that magically top draft pick.

Stats-wise, Pogge has been consistent with the exception of that one year where his numbers improved significantly (also I believe its the year he made the WJHC team)… otherwise he generally hovers around the 90% save average and 2.2 to 2.5 GAA line

in that post is “rebound”. There were some nasty ones last night. And it’s funny what is said about the Leafs poor defensive play(which is true), but it’s never mentioned that they cleared out some junk in the slot that had Sabres looking at an empty net. I’m a cup half empty guy.

is I think that it about evens out in the end. The scary thing about Pogge’s stats is that he is playing behind of the same crappy defense as TaskaLoL and Tosk’s numbers are better(Iknow, not over the same amount of time).

Rebound control seems to me precisely the type of thing developing goalies learn. If he had bad positioning (although he over commits a bit – again, a youthful thing) or shitty reflexes, or Raycroft’s glove, I’d be a lot more concerned.

Interesting that in all this debate, nobody mentions Jimmy Howard as a comparator.