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Originally Posted by getbak
Did anyone here watch much of Lack last season? It's interesting how much his stats changed after Peters called him out after that bad game against Tampa.
That game was on March 1. Even though it was so late in the season, it was actually the halfway point of Lack's season (he missed almost 3 months due to a concussion). That was his 8th start and 10th game overall.
After the Tampa game, he had a 2-4-2 record with a .873 SV% and a 3.33 GAA.
He then went on to play another 10 games before the end of the season. In those 10 games, he had a 6-3-1 record with a .925 SV% and a 2.09 GAA.
That's why I'm curious to hear from someone who actually watched him last season. If his early record was the result of trying to adapt his style to how Marcoux wanted him to play, and his later style was him saying "Screw it, I'll play the way I play and if you don't like it, bench me", I'm more optimistic about what he can bring to the Flames.
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As an aside, this is an interesting commentary on the starter vs backup situation mentioned earlier. 55-60 game starters can have a bad eight game stretch top open their season and it's a blip on the radar for their whole-season aggregate performance. We even saw it with Kipprusoff in some years. Elsewhere, I've noticed it in recent years with guys like Lehtonen, Andersen, and Bobrovsky. Yet if a backup has a poor stretch of games, it will completely kill all positive perception of their season. The idea that it's easier to play well for 25 games than for 60 is flawed, because it's easier to make up a lone bad stretch with a bigger sample.