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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
The reality where people actually watch what's happening in front of the goaltender instead of just automatically blaming them for every loss where their save percentage isn't .950.
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I don't think anybody thinks that the teams defensive zone and special teams play isn't a problem. People are just arguing that goaltending is clearly the biggest problem right now.
Our save percentage is 12 points lower than then next worst team - that is enormous. Nobody is expecting .950 save percentages, but somewhere in that .910 (league average) area would be nice (hell even just .900 would be a big improvement over the .890 we have this year).
If the Oilers had the same save percentage as the Flames this year they would have given up 39 more goals then they have this season.
Flames get average goaltending and they move from 30th in GA to 15th in GA. That right there is pretty clearly the biggest problem a team could have.