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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
This is not completely true. The team was terrible for the first few months of the season to the point where fans and even media were openly questioning if Gulutzan was long for the job. There's no doubt Elliott wasn't at his best to start the season but the team was hot garbage while Gaudreau, Monahan, Giordano, Hamilton, Brodie etc struggled to grasp a new system. Go back through all the threads in that timeline where people were considering Gulutzan a disaster and downgrade from Hartley. That wasn't all Elliott's fault.
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And nobody is saying it was 'all' Elliott's fault, but when your team is struggling you need your goalie to save your ass from time to time, and thats a big issue because he was as terrible as everyone else.
The fact of the matter is that the Team's Terrible start isnt all Elliott's fault and the Team's subsequent success wasnt all Elliott's doing either.
But I'd say that his struggles impacted the team to a far greater degree than his successes, and ergo, negatively.