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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
No point in bringing this up. The poster is the same guy defending Rittich stinker after stinker while constantly critiquing Talbot for providing better goaltending than Rittich has shown in half a season. When you score one goal in a playoff game you can have prime Patrick Roy in net and you are still likely going to lose that game.
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Haha, are you for real? I think the grown ups here can decide to whom they respond.
While I question the usefulness of dignifying you further with a response, let’s be clear that nobody here is talking about Rittich except for you.
As for constantly critiquing Talbot, I have no idea what you are on about. This year I have had more confidence in this tandem than any the Flames have had in years.
In fact, since you seem to be personally interested in me (and thank you, I’m flattered), I will volunteer that I saw some poster earlier saying he wouldn’t be surprised to see a goalie change next game. If you were to ask me what my thoughts were on that, I would expect that to be unlikely, and I would not be in favour.
I have no trouble looking at a goal against a guy like Smith, Talbot, Rittich, whomever, and giving an opinion as to how reasonable it would be to expect a goalie to save the shot, based on the circumstances.
You will find a common theme a lot of the time is that when a lot of people here assign disproportionate blame to goalies (or even players) for things they can’t control, I am not shy to point out my view, supported by observations.
Whether you agree with me in general or not, honestly I wouldn’t have a clue. Again, thanks for your interest.
What I do know about you is that you seem to think Rinaldo is bad, and a team has better chances of winning if they score more than one goal. We agree!
Of course, the Flames have actually scored more than one every other game in the series, in fact scoring 4 twice, but then good playoff teams also need to be able to win the low scoring tight games too.
So yeah, if you score only one goal, you likely lose the game. But if the other team also only scores one goal, you have a tie and have the chance to score next and win that game.
And guess what? If Talbot stops that shot yesterday, which I thought was quite stoppable, Dallas would have also *gasp* only scored one goal.
Just because Gaudreau is between non factor and detriment, Lindholm looks off, and the team only scored 1 yesterday, doesn’t make the winner yesterday on Talbot a good goal. It was a stinker.
Thanks again.