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Originally Posted by moon
I don't need to look at the stats because I watched the tournament and Makarov outplayed Vasilevski. Subban was great in the round robin game against the States and fine in every other game. There wasn't really a ton of great goaltending at the tournament so easy for Subban to out perfrom the other goalies. Looking at the stats doesn't show how he was left out to dry by the defense against the Germans or how in the SF the score was due to the skaters not showing up. It wasn't close to his fault they lost that game and the score/stats tell you nothing about how he played that game.
They have a camp because some spots are open and some pre-determined. The players have been scouted for up to 2 years in advance so to ignore that huge run of games for a short 4 day camp in which guys are trying to fit in and playing with hodgepodge line-ups would be idiotic. Subban showed before that camp that he was head and shoulders above the other goaltenders attending, just like RNH, Hubredeau, Strome and Schiefle did.
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Excellent response. Screw the statistics because they contradict my viewpoint, it's much more accurate to go with my totally subjective, non-professional assessment. Nice Moon.