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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef

I love how people have the narrative that he was only good in 2 months and completely ignore that his "good months" were the majority of his season. Elliott was ranked 11th in in Quality Start % among goalies that started 30 or more games.

You're conveniently ignoring WHY he played the majority of his games in the latter half of the season. Because he sucked the first half.

Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef

He was poor for the first 4-6 weeks of the year

It's about 7 weeks from 12th of October to 28th of November.

3 games in January

He only played 6 games in January.

and 2 in the playoffs.

Or to put it another way, he had 1 good start out of 4.

He was good in December

He didn't play half of December, and the other half he put up mediocre numbers. That's a really low bar for "good".

great in February

5 times below .900 in first 7 games of February, followed by the first 3 games of his hot streak.

Pretty low bar for "great.

and March

Yeah, he was great in March.

and good in April until the playoffs

Oh? He lost all 3 regular season games in April with a total SV% of .871.

In total his April numbers were 1 win in 7 games, SV% of .876 and a GAA of 3.00.

His GAA and SV% were average.

31st out of 41 is in SV% (goalies with 30 gp, your pick of a cutoff point) is a pretty low bar for "average"

But sure, his GAA was pretty close to average. Big whoop.

I would split his season like this:
- 7 bad weeks from the start of the season to late October.
- 15 below average to okay weeks from late October to late February
- 6 excellent weeks from late February to March
- 2 bad weeks in April

So in total, 9 bad weeks (including playing his worst in the most important games of the season), 6 excellent weeks, 15 weeks that can at best be called okay.

This is what I mean when I say that Calgary fans have really low standards for goaltending.