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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I call bull, some react better to pressure than others. I'd say an example is our old backup, McElhinney who could star in the minors but hasn't been able to cut it in the NHL. Other players are average AHL players but moving up to the big leagues doesn't faze them and they become average NHL players as well. An example could be Moss.
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Either that or his talents were good enough to work at the AHL level and not the NHL level.
Baseball is littered with AAAA guys - players who dominate in AAA, but fail in the majors. And typically there's a reason for it (ie; a soft-tossing pitcher who's breaking pitches fool young batters, but veteran MLBs are more patient and wait for him to pitch in the strike zone).
McElhinney is very similar. He's a good positional goalie who doesn't have great mobility. Those strong fundamentals work well against lesser competition, but in the NHL you need average athletic ability (relative to other NHL goalies) to survive and he just doesn't have it.