Ghost of Goaltending Situations Past

When they start that young it does age them in my mind. When I’m thinking of him its like my mind tells me he’s 24

I think it was kipper in the intermission who made the point that Schenn took the man and was completely fine. But then he switched to the stick for some reason and got all flustered before losing the battle.

man if that’s what RW says about him in a public forum, just imagine what he says to him in private

What I found interesting was that he went out for Halloween with Kessel, Bozak, and Schenn (and their gf’s).

Where in my post does it say that it’s the entire problem? Where in my post does it say that a decent backup we’ll be first forever?

Is Gus good or something? Is Scrivens? Are we trying to win games or what?

Goaltending is by far the largest problem on this team. If we move from our goaltending to average we cut out about a goal/game.

Not first in the league, but better. It’s just easier to see the goaltending problems because they are so stark. This is still a young team and they need time to develop. The goalies are young too, unfortunately they are developing under a brighter light, because of their position.

I knew there was something wrong with Schenn on his very first pre-season shift.

1) players don’t often call other players out publicly. how often do you hear Kessel say “I scored a bunch of goals but Schenn really shit the bed back there on D?” we don’t know what happens behind closed doors though.

2) Dion DID say in an interview yesterday that the goalies had some trouble, but that they needed to be better in front of them when they weren’t getting the bounces. He didn’t absolve them of blame.

3) being a goalie IS different than being a skater. I think it’s pretty hard for skaters to pass blame on to goalies.

My dad used to tell me when I blamed our goalie for a bad game: “that goalie was the last person to be beat….five of his teammates were beaten before he was.”

A bit simplistic and folksy, but there it is. Having said that, a goalie is expected to bail out his team’s mistakes some of the time. When you can’t rely on our goaltender to bail your team out of tough spots, then you need to start looking elsewhere, because that’s their job. Is it fair? Not really, but it’s the reality of the position.

Gardiner/Liles. Gardiner is no Gunnar with his positioning. He’s not defensively sound yet. But he skates like the wind and makes great passes. That to me is an offensive D-man. He might grow into a Lidstrom but more likely he’ll be a Kabby type player.

Which ones? We have seen 2. Gus was an experiment that failed. Most prospects do. Scrivens has been practicing with Allaire for two training camps and half a season. That is not a lot. Thats the end of the list.

Because it takes time and talent. This isn’t a “waive a wand – poof! you can stop pucks!” The most “allaire-ite” is out with a concussion, Owuya, Scrivens, and Rynnas are all prospects, just as Hiller, Giguere, and Bryzgalov were.

Hiller is a one hit wonder? Really?

He is number 3 in s% over the previous 4 seasons…

Hiller isn’t one hit wonder.
Giguere was great at one point.

Reimer too early to tell.

.919, .918, .924, more than 45 starts each year. What does “one hit wonder” mean to you?

He is most famous for being Roy’s goalie coach.

it shouldn’t be friendly it should be a smack to the face. That shit has been beaten to death.

my guess is nagging injuries are wearing him down, nothing serious, but his body has taken a ton of punishment from the style he has played

I’m regretting taking Ryan first in our pool.

The team raves about how great a guy he is and how he keeps everybody loose. I do agree he doesn’t do anything spectacular and I do often find myself wishing he had more finish. But then I look at his numbers and he was a respectable 0.46ppg last year (in an injury-shortened season). He’s definitely a higher end guy on that 3rd line.

I get that, I’m just saying his “window” can’t be very long. The downside to the “free wallet” NCAA UFA approach is that if they can’t produce right away…

goaltender’s denial is a serious issue

If you saw Gus’s face when he got pulled against Florida, you could tell he knew the gig was up. He can say what he wants to the media, I think he knows that he’s got problems.

Dave Hodge got fired for complaining about cutting off the end of a hockey game.

Thats just not true.

i think it’s perfectly fine to groan about. i’m just not sure that the fact that he works for the CBC should come into the equation. he’d be awful no matter what station he was on, and whether or not like $0.07 of your taxes paid for his salary.