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Originally Posted by ricardodw
The numbers don't matter.
Talbot gives up an Elliot goal where the whole team on the ice does their jobs pretty close to as best as possible and the whole team sags. the xGF % goes to H*** in a handbasket. The other team gets a spark and starts playing better.
Players start trying to prevent the other guys from shooting
Name the last Flame goalie that went 4 important games without letting in a softie.
Do you really think that this Flame team somehow became so mentally strong that they would be able to overlook poor or sloppy goal-tending and keep on doing their own jobs??
Talbot is giving the Flames the opportunity to stick to their game plan.
PS the guy throws a shutout in the most important game that Gio has played in in his whole career and Ho-Hum just doing what he is supposed to.
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I'm not anti-Talbot.
If you had said it's great to see a Calgary goaltender not give up a softie and leave it at that I'd agree with you ... pretty much what I predicted in the series coming in. Talbot stands in like Reggie Lemelin, and doesn't give up the easy ones.
But he gets in trouble moving in high danger situations.
You, however, called him the team's MVP not just a guy that avoided giving up a back breaking softie.
That's completely different.
And the numbers do matter.