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Originally Posted by Inferno
The thing you're forgetting is yes they were bad teams but he did what was asked of him to get the win. He could have very well been as horrible as he's made out be and lost all five but he didn't. There were numerous times throughout those games where he came up big when needed (ie. 5 on 3 in the third against Arizona) but the people who scapegoat him choose to forget them and focus on just the goals he let in.
No, they aren't but I've seen them both let in similar goals this year where it's been considered a bad goal for Elliott but for Johnson he had no chance. I'm pretty confident that if it was Elliott playing last night he would have been blamed for the first goal and would have been criticized for "not coming up big" on the second goal and atleast getting the game to OT despite the team playing like ass.
That's what I mean by double standard. Yes, Johnson is having a better season but if it's a bad goal on Elliott it's a bad goal on Johnson. And if a win against a bad team is no big deal for Elliott then it's no big deal for Johnson either.
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Removing Johnson's cupcake wins doesn't change his numbers in any perceptible way.
Take away Elliott's easy starts and he's Jonas Hiller.
To put it another way, a bad goal for McElhinney might well be a bad goal for Kipper, but one goalie has earned a few mulligans and the other hasn't.