After reading through the main GDT I never would have guessed.I think I've been on the outs with them since Mackinnon's rookie year.
After reading through the main GDT I never would have guessed.I think I've been on the outs with them since Mackinnon's rookie year.
Budaj won’t play in the playoffs, barring some blowouts, or injury to vasy.
And, yeah, an injury to vasy would be a problem come playoff time. But as a lightning fan, it would be status quo
Do you mean their fans in attendance specifically? The ones on here seem alright (I read through their gdt of our last game (*between the Bolts and Avs) and they were at least respectful and even impressed). The fans in attendance I was annoyed by (this game) because they seemed to be looking for penalty calls when nothing happened.On a side note, I now know that I don't like avs fans lol
Hopefully we never find outIs Budaj going to be a problem in the playoffs? Or Good enough?
He had one or two fingers of good games (LA comes to mind... wait, was he good that game, or were we just dominant as a whole?)And by bad, the handful of games he featured in, he's sucked. Royally.
I'd say he'd be more like:Drouin gave away the puck to Ryan for a goal. His team lost 3-0.
Sergachev scores the GWG and his team wins 6-5.
Yzerman be like:
Clown show officiating.
We went up 5-1 and started thinking of Vegas. Can't stop skating against teams or they'll make you pay. A lesser team would have blown this game.
Budaj was ok. Only one he had a chance on was the 5th, and even that was a laser. 1st was a star on a breakaway, 2nd and 3rd were great deflections, 4th was a perfect shot by a star. It's not often that you give up 5 goals and not think the goaltending sucks, but this was one of those games.
Budaj won’t play in the playoffs, barring some blowouts, or injury to vasy.
And, yeah, an injury to vasy would be a problem come playoff time. But as a lightning fan, it would be status quo
The issue is we can't ride Vasy all season long and then expect him to carry us through the playoffs we have to find a good backup that gives us decent shots at winning on days we rest vasy.
I couldn’t agree more who’s ice time would a 3rd RW take ? On this team it’s a 10 minute a night spot. A goalie would be key and in my opinion a upgrade at 4th line Center preferably a face off guy would be way more important.Instead of targetting another skater, I'd easily go for a strong backup goaltender at the deadline, could even be another teams starter like LA did with us last year considering the cost of aquiring a goalie is low. It's a strong contending year maybe even "the year", on the off chance Vasi goes down late into the season we need insurance in net, Budaj is not that guy.
3RW, faceoff specialists, that's all luxury stuff we don't "need", this team is flat out dominant without it anyways, Budaj's save% and GAA over the past 2 years for us though - not something you wanna risk.