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Originally Posted by thymebalm
Ok... Or you can take a revisionist history stance. Unfortunately he DID get blown out in Boston, so that's on his stat line. He DID let in those OT goals when we needed him to stop them. And you already disproved your star argument by demonstrating how entirely subjective it is.
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That was the team's worst performance all year. He has to live with it in his current stat line. However, since a pretty rare outlier happened to fall in his small sample of games, it makes perfect sense to discount when trying accurately project his abilities. We don't have to ignore that game ever happened. We just think in the future it won't happen as often as once in every seven games.
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Take off the rose coloured glasses. He did no better than Karlsson or McElhinney before him. Karlsson stopped a bunch of pucks and lost games, same with McElhinney. At the end of the day, it's the Ws that bring home the bacon.
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Even counting the Boston game Irving's NHL save percentage is still better than both of the other guys. Irving faced significantly more shots than the Flames gave up on average, and in fact he saw more rubber than any team averaged on the season. Yes, wins matter a lot. Yes, Irving still has a lot to prove. However, if you just want to shove a guy with 7 games of NHL experience in the same category as other guys based solely on winning percentage, then I would suggest that is a severely flawed stance. If you really want to dwell on one stat for a goalie, at least use save percentage.