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Originally Posted by calgaryblood
Haha what difference will that make? He's been lit up for several years and they somehow keep giving him the starters job.
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He may not be a star goalie, but can you truly blame Pavelec? All the Jets do is take penalties and they don't do a good job keeping the chances to the outside when they do kill them.
I just took a look, over the last five years, Ondrej Pavalec has the highest 4-on-5 "expected goals against" (159.29 expected goals against) in the NHL.
In 43 less games played than the second highest - Jonathan Quick at (157.50 expected goals against). There's not a lot goalies can do to influence this stat other than be great puck movers and have great rebound control, but even then the difference between first and second place shouldn't be that blatant. In 43 more games Quick still wouldn't be expected to give up as many goals against as Pavelec if they had the same ability level.
When you are that exposed to bad chances in endless penalty kill situations, you pretty much have to be
elite at the position to simply tread water.