Are goalies the most sheltered (from criticism) athletes in the world?

[David Bruce Banner]

 

[FerrisRox]

Between coaches never blaming goalies publically because they don't want to call out one player and fans who think that blaming a goalie is a cop out so they blame the defense and sometimes offense for lack of support. Maybe this is not the case with every fanbase. I know Avs fans have had it with Georgiev and Pens fans with Jarry. But it seems like because goalies are on an island to avoid calling out one player rather than the entire team they are often sheltered.

I've seen this with other positions in sports. I know that often as wild as it sounds you hear QBs treated like this. John Mara's famous "we did everything we could to screw this kid up" with Daniel Jones. And the nonstop apologists to this day that blame the weapons and offensive line and think Jones got screwed. But overall QB also gets a ton of criticism. To me goalie is one of the sweetest gigs you can have if you want a job where you're absolved from criticism.

Are you new to the sport?

 

[MoneyManny]

QB's most often take 100% of the blame for the 52 players on a Football roster.

Imagine a sport where there's 22 players on the field for every single play but the only one that's ever being focused at on tv is the Quarterback.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

I almost never hear criticism of cricket or water polo players.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Sounds like a Rangers thing of protecting their goalies. They get crucified everywhere else. Our starter has been waived twice and is in the ahl. It's well deserved, but the defense has been just as bad.

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

For the Habs there's a handful of posters who have no idea how goal works, so everything is a weak goal.

Double screen, deflected goal ? Goalie's fault.

 

[Hunter368]

Canada we will debate how the backup goalie should be or how good he is or isn’t for weeks on end. I suspect it’s more about the OP not being exposed it then anything. Backup goalie who plays 20 games a year, typically or often vs weaker teams.

 

[WarriorofTime]

There's no code. Lundqvist was an all time great goalie in the regular season, his postseason was more mixed. But he was beyond reproach no matter how badly he was playing. But considering he was arguably the best goalie over a 10 year or so period in the NHL and a first ballot HOFer I get it. People think that this is Shesterkin. It's not. This is not Aaron Rodgers replacing Brett Favre. This is Jordan Love at best.

Shesterkin is a top goaltender every year so this isn’t making a lot of sense. This is what happens when a fanbase gets spoiled at a position, so any rough three game stretch, anything other than being a top 3 performer every single season or whatever means he’s “overrated”

 

[Ratsreign]

For the Habs there's a handful of posters who have no idea how goal works, so everything is a weak goal.

Double screen, deflected goal ? Goalie's fault.

Every fan base has some of those fans