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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
The ‘context of Vladar’s career’ is that he was thrown in against good teams, and on the second of back to backs, while the starter (Markstrom to start, and last year Wolf) got the majority of games inclusive of a good share of the muffins. That’s how the Flsmes ran their goalies
I have pointed this out a few times.
Wolf was flat out amazing against the bottom 3 teams in the West and the bottom 3 teams in the east. That is where he padded his stats. Against the losers. He got 11 of the 12 games against the duds and pretty much ran the tables.
Against the rest of the league (noting that Vladar didn’t get those muffins), he and Vladar were roughly equivalent.. both were ~within a game of .500
It should be accepted that good teams are better at scoring than bad teams, therefore you should be able to deduce that goalies who play only against good teams will likely end up having worse stats than goalies that also get to face bad teams.
And as Estrada noted, coaching and the team in front of the goalie matters.
Ullmark left Boston for Ottawa. How’s that going? Boston loses Krejci, Bergeron and Chara and sub in Lindholm and Zadorov. How is Swayman doing?
Roloson and Fernandez both put up .930+ under Lemaire in Minny
I suspect he will have better than career stats considering the circumstances under which he achieved his career stats, compared to those he is playing under now
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Woah there.
I like Vladar, said that in my post.
I think you're missing the point - you can argue he's played good teams or bad teams, had the best or the worst assignments, etc - but if you look at the context of his career, i.e. his stats, until so far this season - he has had one season with a sv pct above 0.9.
Could he figure it out this seaon? Sure. But its also only been 9 games, cherry picking bad games or good games doesn't change that.
And all this, like I said, coming from a Vladar fan.