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Originally Posted by Gaskal
I understand where you're coming from, but I think a better way of looking at an aggregate that includes 2 depressing seasons and 1 solid one is to look at season by season performance individually. It's quite well documented that he was unhappy in Carolina and not playing under Marcoux the way he was used to, so I'd like to think that Carolina Eddie Lack is an anomaly:
2nd Last w/VAN: 2.41, .912
Last w/ VAN: 2.45, .921
CAR year 1: 2.81, .901
CAR year 2: 2.64, .902
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It's a nice happy thought that half of Eddie's pro career is an aberration or anomaly, and that part of his career furthest from the present is a more accurate representation of where he is as a goalie today...but it takes some mental gymnastics to get there.
We can do all goalies with 100 starts over the course of Eddies career and compare him in that manner too.
Since Lack joined the NHL:
2.57GGA (29/49), .910 SV% (39/49).
That's as rosy as I can make the numbers, and it's still not great. I will say again, I think the Flames and their coaches and management poured over all the video and felt confident enough that they could get Eddie back to the level he was playing at in Vancouver. If there is hope to be had, its in the hard work of the people who decided this was the right move to make.
Do I think he could be as good as he was in Vancouver as the Flames backup? I do. Will that happen? We'll see.