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Originally Posted by Infinit47
I'm slightly confused as you say these models are useless to rate our goalies, and then use them to defend our goalies being mid pack, which they are not by those stats.
Of the 45 goalies who have played 20 or more games Markstrom's XGA/60 is 11th and Vladar's is 8th. That's not mid pack.That's better than top third.
Goaltending has been the Flames single biggest problem this year, but I agree it's not the only problem.
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Well, my view is more this
Flames lose 4-1.
People say the goalie sucked, the guy at the other end was better (yet again)
I say that in my view they deserved to lose around 4-1 based on what the goalies actually had to stop (I’d say ~5-2, given Mang’s issue and some of Marky’s big saves)
I actually don’t view the goaltending as the single biggest problem
A lot of people do, basically because of sv% and timing of goals. Some guy stuff and the pitchforks are out after enough of it
I really view the costly breakdowns, and time and space allowed, as the problems on the defensive side
That’s all. Basically I think that they are skewing to the wrong side of what the model would expect, based on non-goalie related things we repeatedly see