Once again: Wolf isn't sheltered. The Flames certainly seem to be trying to shelter him (until recently, anyway), but they weren't succeeding. His expected goals against / 60 is higher than Vladar's, and has been all season. Opposing teams get fewer and worse chances when Vladar is in net than when Wolf is in net (and again: that's been the case all season long).
With that being said, I'm not trying to discredit Vladar here or argue that it's as simple as the Flames being a bottom 5 team without Wolf. But it is factually incorrect that Wolf has been sheltered, regardless of what the intended effect of his deployment has been to this point.
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