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Originally Posted by Parallex
Shrug... as I said above the flames are third in the league in Fewest Shots Against per game while having the 9th best shots for per game. I'd call that a good to very good performance collectively overall from the guys in front of him. So I'm going to have to disagree, I think he is the main issue at the moment. IMO if we'd have gotten just league average goaltending we'd be 3-1-1 right now.
I ain't saying that he should be traded for the proverbial bag of pucks... but the season is too short to let him have an infinately long leash.
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Teams that are trailing tend to have better shot differentials than teams that are leading due to the latter sitting back and protecting the lead. Over a small sample a poor performing team can have a better shot differential than they otherwise would simply by virtue of the fact that they've been playing from behind a lot.
Not saying that's what's behind the Flames' numbers, but I'd avoid reading too much into stats like that over a 5 game sample. These things usually take 20+ games to start to shake themselves out.