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Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta
The sophomore slump is a real thing. It wouldn’t be shocking to see Wolf go through some growing pains next year with some higher expectations on his plate and what’s likely to be his net for a higher percentage of starts. If we trade Andersson, and Wolf’s save percentage slips slightly I think we’re already in that lottery ticket for Mckenna territory. Maybe not a bottom 5 team but a bottom 10 for sure. Some further age regression from Backlund seems likely too.
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Agreed. The book the league has on Wolf is going to expand. Every goalie has 'weaknesses' or shots they find harder to stop. That's why I could see the league making a couple more adjustments, resulting in a bit of a slump, until the goaltending staff, and the D adjust to mitigate those.
In this post season EDM stands out as a team that scouts, and game plans the goalie weakness with great success. They made all of Kuemper, Hill, and Oettinger look rather bad/average with their shot choices, and now they're making Skinner look like a Vezina caliber goalie by limiting rush chances against.