I'm certainly not opposed to re-signing him. Elliott's awful stats this season are in large part due to how horribly this team played during GG's first 16GP behind the bench. Now I'm not completely absolving Elliott here, as there were some real stinkers that got by him, but I can acknowledge that it's very much a mental game and especially for goaltenders, and his confidence wasn't there at the start of the season.
If we break games 1-16 out of the stat-line, it looks like:
Games 1-16 (25% of season-to-date)
Team Record: 5-10-1
Elliott's Record: 3-8-0
Elliott's SV%: .882
Games 17-64 (75% of season-to-date)
Team Record: 31-16-3
Elliott's Record: 13-7-3
Elliott's SV%: .912
The numbers lean even further in Elliott's favor if you break out the games since Wideman has been replaced by Stone, but I won't do that because of the sample size (4GP).
TLDR; if Elliott can maintain his strong play down the stretch and into the playoffs, I'd be on-board with re-signing him
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