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Originally Posted by JayP
Oettinger played 48 games his first full season. His backups would've played a combined 34 games. After tonight, Vladar will be on pace for 42GP to Wolf's 40GP. Pretty fundamental difference there. The Flames should be targeting a similar to split to what the Stars did with Oettinger.
And the idea that the Flames goalies are pushing each other for starts anymore is ridiculous. That was true in October. Since then, Vladar's been awful and there's a massive difference in their numbers. Wolf has proven himself to be the far superior goalie and should be given more starts because of it.
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His first season Ottinger played in 29 games and Khudobin played in 32. So really not much different than what Wolf and Vladar are right now. Yes, it was a shortened season but it was still the whole season and had it been 82 games they probably still split the games.
Vladar hasn't really been as bad as some like to make it out be. Save percentage doesn't always tell the story. It wouldn't have mattered who was in net last week against the Lightning.