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Originally Posted by taxbuster
I'm pretty much in agreement with most of your assessments, but a few strike me as off a bit from what I see:
Under: Kipper -- would give him a C-; hard to rate this year. Has definitely not met expectations, but are our expectations just way too high for an aging goalie (who works as hard as he does, particularly)?
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My grade should by no means be taken as something I hold against him. I'm sure he tries his best, and it's not like he could just choose to become younger.
That said, sports is about results, and his results are among the worst in the league over the season. 70th out of all goalies in GAA in a team that's 12th in SA/G, 72nd out of all goalies in SV%. We're talking about the ballpark where the Florida Panthers third goalie plays in. Seriously, how is that not an F?
We're BTW also the team with the fewest penalty minutes per game, which by all rationality should help goalie stats. We really are not that bad defensively as a team.
That's an F, no matter how hard you tried and how much of a good guy you are and how great you were.
(PS: if you're wondering about the differing stats in this and my first post, it's because I used different sites. These are NHL official sites which counts all the goalies.)