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Originally Posted by Inferno
Winnipeg, LA, and Carolina are the only good teams on your list. The rest are either mediocre or bad.
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And yet, the Flames beat those mediocre or bad teams by only one goal (ENs aside). And that was
with Wolf playing very well. What does that tell you? The margins have been very tight, even against less-than-stellar teams. Having great goaltending has been extremely important in these games.
Saying only 3 teams on the list are good teams is not as relevant as you think it is. If the rest of the teams can't keep the puck out of their own nets, what relevance does that have to Flames goalies? Zero. What matters is whether opposing teams can score, and only 4 teams have some trouble scoring (among the listed opponets).
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You're acting as if Vladar can't handle teams who have scorers and only makes routine saves and never makes big saves himself.
Maybe Vladar doesn't make the same saves Wolf made those games but maybe Wolf doesn't make the same saves Vladar does either. Maybe because of his size Vladar gets a piece of Pissy's shot and the Flames win last night.
Nobody is saying that Wolf hasn't stolen the team points. But not 17. There can be games where he both plays well and the team plays well too. Unless his team completely dominates the game there's going to be times throughout the game where a goalie needs to make a big save. But it doesn't necessarily mean he stole the game for them.
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I'm not suggesting Vladar is an incapable goalie who can't make big saves. I'm just saying you can either bog things down with "what ifs" and "maybes" forever, or you can at some point start making some determinations.
Flames win a game by one goal, Wolf plays great. If it's a goalie other than Wolf, the game goes to extra time where 1 of the points is no longer guaranteed.