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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Unfortunately the goaltending stats for this team don't back that up especially when combined with the amount of miscues and turnovers this team commits. I'm not anti-Darryl but he's basically barking up the same tree as Brent here and this team doesn't have nearly the size of the team he had in LA that could play a heavy game and wear down their opponents. I'm all for a team that plays the right way but I'm not a fan of the mindset that you need to put a cap on how many goals you need to score to win games. 2 or even 3 goals for isn't going to cut it a lot of nights no matter how well you play defensively.
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It's true. It's also true that this team, including Gaudreau and Lindholm, aren't going to get you those goals. They need more high end consistency. Or they need to change the team makeup.
The goalie stats have to be tempered and filtered both pre-and post Sutter, pre-Markstrom injury, post-Markstrom injury and recent Markstrom, who I think has now healed up.