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Originally Posted by kyuss275
I wouldnt say that. Ward plays on a pretty crappy team so he is hard to evaluate.
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Good goaltenders elevate their game to carry "pretty crappy teams" with Faulk, Sekera, Jeff Skinner, Eric Staal, Jordan Staal, Elias Lindholm, etc.
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No way is he worse than Ramo.
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2012 Lockout-to-Now Stats
Player / GP / Save Percentage / Low Danger / Medium Danger / High Danger
Ward / 105 / .906 / .964 / .919 / .796
Ramo / 84 / .910 / .967 / .918 / .819
Hiller / 153 / .913 / .965 / .919 / .832
Bobrovsky / 159 / .919 /.967 / .923 / .832
Varlamov / 167 /.918 / .970 / .936 / .830
Ward is worse than Ramo, but that doesn't mean Ramo's very good. Right now Ward's arguably
the reason the Hurricanes are a "pretty crappy team". I added Bobrovsky and Varlamov as examples of good (better-than-Hiller) goaltenders on a "bad" team.
Ward got hot in the playoffs (
in a tandem) 10 seasons ago. He's made the playoffs exactly once since then.