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Originally Posted by Bingo
I'm not interested in blaming goaltenders until they clean up the ten bell chance rates that they're currently putting on display.
15 more last night at five on five, 16 overall.
Last year the 15th best high danger goaltender stopped 83% of these chances over the course of a season which would be ... drumroll please ... 12 in a game where you give up 16, meaning four go in.
I can pretty much guarantee you Peters is looking at the 16 high danger chances and not his goaltender this morning.
The 10 best team in the league last year in high danger chance surrender gave up 955 over the season for 11.8 per game.
This year the Flames are ranked 28th in the NHL for high danger chances against per 60 minutes.
Smith isn't the issue. He could bail them out more sure as his high danger save rate is at 79.8%, but he's ranked 16th in that stat, and I have him as a middle NHL goaltender.
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Imo, you aren't going to get that with this roster especially with hamonic out
Monahan is not going to become a pavelski level 2 way player, neither will dube or jankowski this year. Gaudreau is limited defensively. A defense with 3 rookies and Brodie isn't going to blow the doors off defensively and you can't play the backlund line 26 minutes a night so...the ten Bell chances are something we are going to have to live with this season.
If it means getting a goalie who does a better but not perfect job of bailing the squad out for 5 of those ten Bell chances rather than 2 or 3, the team needs to be looking at that.
The roster, though vastly improved, has defensive limitations. The goal should be acquiring a goalie that can work within those limitations and give the potent offense a chance to score their way out of 4-3 games.