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Originally Posted by Goriders
The chasm between Wolf and Cooley’s stat line continues to grow.
Do we have a goaltender controversy?
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It’s interesting. Wolf has very good ability to read the play and anticipate. His edges are awesome, looks elite to me. You can’t argue against what he brings to the table there
And at the same time, he is small. He doesn’t fill as much of the net as a bigger guy, and some saves are frankly a matter of the puck hitting you.
Maybe filling more of the net matters. Give a NHL shooter time and space, they can pick their spots. Sometimes pucks deflect, redirect, find their way through a screen or whatever and either it hits the goalie or doesn’t.
I think the D was pretty dismal in October and were disconnected last night, and he hasn’t let in an inordinate amount of stinkers.
It will be interesting to watch because he was basically chosen by the organization and gifted the starter role based on his AHL success, which was tremendous.
Then he was gifted elite pay after favourable deployment last year.
It would be reasonable to look at that stat line and wonder if maybe 7x7 was a bit premature. As I said earlier, the difference between him and Vladar was getting the games against the bottom 3 teams.
If Cooley and Vladar were not both doing way better, you may be fine with what Wolf has done this year, but Cooley has gotten better results playing for the same team. It is 20 games Wolf has played now, only being over .900 in 8 of them, while Cooley has only been barely sub .900 in relief, over .920 all 5 starts, and given up more than 2 goals only once… and that was 2 in regulation, the 3rd in OT.
So no controversy. But food for thought
