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Originally Posted by Resurrection
The spin is your attempt to show that his abundance of starts is proof he is good. That's spin. The proof is in the numbers. 915-917 is an average goaltender. 912 is well short of that. 906 in the playoffs is dreadful. Just because he keeps getting trotted out to play sub par doesn't make him a good starter as your asserting. That's like saying Ondrej Pavelec is an average starter because he's been the Winnipeg/Atlanta starter for 7 years.
I swear the blindspot that exists for some goaltenders is absolutely incredible. 912 is a bad save % ... no matter how many starts you get. If anything a high # of starts all but re assures you that his #'s are correct due to sample size. And this is all with a cap hit of nearly 6 million dollars. Incredible.
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Well short?! Its .003% of a difference. Thats minute.
Say a goaltender faces 25 shots a game for 40 games. Thats 1,000 shots. If he saves 915 of them, he's average. If he saves 912 of them, he's below average? That's ridiculous. The difference of 3 goals over 40 games. That shouldn't be the difference between being ok and being poor.
Would any other playing position get judged on such fine margins?