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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
Those 8 games still count though, you can't just leave them out because he struggled to start the year. People like to boost Ortio like he was completely dominant in the AHL, but the fact of the matter is he was still 31st in SV% and 35th in GAA. That is not dominant by any stretch of the imagination.
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No one is denying that he struggled early.
But to just look at the stats and say he wasn't dominant is also being blind. Here are the facts:
1) he started the season terribly - posting numbers that would anchor his stats for the entire season.
2) he then got rolling and was absolutely dominant, carrying a very young team on his back, until he got injured
3) without him in net, they were pretty awful
I couldn't care less what his stats were - a watched quite a few games and what I saw from him (other than in October) was extremely impressive.