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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
It is revisionist to say the Flames' only problem last year was goaltending. Hiller was terrible, yet the Flames won quite a few games with him, just outscoring the competition. Ortio was very solid but the Flames couldn't get him multippe well-deserved wins. Ramo carried us to the longest home win streak in franchise history but again let him down in some of his best games.
This was a flawed team last year as it is this year. The reasons are a bit different with the changed systems, but last year was certainly a disaster with the exception of December. Our goaltending was not much worse than the predators' goaltending - a team that was in Round Two of the playoffs.
Given our SV%s this year it won't be long before revisionist history is talking about how awful Elliott and Johnson were.
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Last season was the worst display of goaltending possibly in the history of the NHL. I think you may actually be able to argue that. In fact the players may still be recovering from the shock of it.
I've watched most games this season and with the exception of Elliott's first few, goaltending has been solid and I'd say probably above average.
So no, revisionist history will not say that the goaltending was bad this season unless it gets bad this season. Right now it's more of a bright spot than anything.