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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Which series did goalies really cost us? IIRC COL and DAL it wasn't an issue until elimination games (and was a bright spot before that). Against ANA our GF were 2, 2, 4, 1. Only 2 of those at EVS. Goaltending could have helped us steal that series, but it was only part of the reason we lost.
Goalies are voodoo. How many teams in the league are really, really confident in their goalies down the stretch?
TBL. ANA (irrelevant). WPG. VGK (though I'm not sure how confident they'd be with just one of them). Maybe COL - Grubauer's numbers are pretty darn good the last few years.
I'd argue that most years there are only 5-7 teams with great goaltending, and another 15-20 where it's okay, but questionable.
This year should be evidence enough that goaltending was never the thing holding this group back.
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Totally. Every year it seems a goalie gets hot at the right time and carries his team to the SCF. Khodobin last year (no one saw that coming). Binnington the year before. A guy the Blues has so little faith in that he was t even playing in their own farm system at the start of season.
Now bring this back to Treliving. He had high end goaltending prospects in Gillies and Parsons. So he tried to find capable and proven, but not elite, goalies to plug the hole until these guys developed. Elliot, Smith, Talbot. These were all considered smart moves at the time.
Is the failure on Tre for not finding a Markstrom sooner? Is it on the goalies themselves? Is it on the prospects for not panning out? Coaching? Player development?
To me it is way more complicated than just saying “Fire the GM”. What I see is a GM who continually tries to address weaknesses, and a roster that continually underachieves.