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Originally Posted by Frank MetaMusil

Ramo was crap to start the season. He was costing the team games.

At the time Ramo was put on waivers, he was 0-3 with an .879 sv%.

Revisionist history at its best. He didn't cost us Game 1. Playing like **** cost us game 1. He wasn't great but did not cost the team that game. Unless you believe in winning despite playing like **** because a super star goalie goes God Mode.

He didn't cost us the Jets game. Scoring one goal cost us the Jets game and he made some super quality saves. He had a bad late goal that never would have mattered if this team wasn't getting outplayed.

And he sure didn't cost us the Capitals game. He had one goal he'd like back in that game, that still wouldn't have been a goal with good coverage.

Ramo was not good to start the year. But he did not cost us a single game in October.

Secondly, this is a smaller quibble, but Nakladal still struggles with defensive coverage and recognition of the play. He's getting better, but I don't think he deserves top 4 minutes, regardless of what the advanced stats say.

Can you stop bringing advanced stats up every time I post something you disagree with? It's clear you want to paint me as some Ryan Lambert idiot who can't see beyond charts but I don't appreciate it. I've never even looked at a chart of Nakladal.

I'm well aware that Nakladal isn't perfect in the defensive zone but it's a different set of tradeoffs he and Schlemko brought, that are effective. It's something coaches like Babcock and Boudreau are not afraid to experiment with. When your options are one #6 (Engelland) and another #6 (Nakladal) you are simply looking at different tradeoffs on who should be your #4.

...And +/- means nothing. Hamilton is one of the worst +/- guys on this team, by your logic he should be on the bottom pair. Usage impacts +/- and I would take the Devils' defensive play with Schlemko over the Flames.

Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher

It's less of an issue because they are not incompetent at their jobs. But those guys don't steal many games.

I don't believe goalies need to steal "many" games if you have a good team. The Preds have gotten some terrible goaltending this year too, but they're in a playoff spot.