Exactly one good game a month isn't cutting it.
And he completely outplayed that deal last year. I wish you can get consistent top 5-10 goaltending from the 36th highest paid goalie year after year. But its a very high variance position.
Yup. A one line team right now with two great pairings, the stars still killing it, but they are getting overplayed. We need Lehkonen, Nuke and Byram back so we don't ice Polin, McDermiad and JMFJ every night. JMFJ can sub in every now and then.
The average backups aren't asked to play almost every game. They can't possibly play "more consistently", they don't play consistently against all opponent quality.
Thats exactly what a quality backup goalie like Frankie was. Good enough to play for a stretch so that the starter can get a refresh. CMAC definitely missed the boat on this earlier; if Annunen wasn't good enough, you need to go get a backup.Old coaching secret........ when your goalie isn't making saves, you always tell the team that pointing that one finger means that the other 4 are pointing back at yourself.
And that everyone on the ice is partly to blame for the goal that has been scored..... at some point, some time, somebody blew an assignment.
It's a coping technique.... lol
Ever notice that when the goalie plays out of his head, he gets all the credit and the 5 skaters don't share in the glory?
That's why you need 2 (TWO!) NHL quality goaltenders! Or at least a backup that can play a bunch of games at that level until the ship rights itself.
Management has screwed the pooch here and the players all know it.
Didn't we just beat Boston with Georgiev in net a few weeks ago and he won the shootout? The stars needed to be perfect though, which you can't expect every game, unsustainable. The depth is not giving us any margin of error.
He out played it for while… he also shit the bed in the playoffs too. These RFA guys who are to become starters parlay these deals to longer 5.5-6m deals.
Maybe some… but he also is so vocal about being the starter that plays a lot of games…
They shouldn’t have let the other team dump it in
I rather ride with Annunen. Give him the Philly game and see how he looks.
He already has a legit starting job, but we need a quality backup like Frankie last year, which is a huge help for him last year.
I'd love for Annunen to succeed, so would love to give him another shot next game. At the same time, CMAC needs to be on the phone for plan C and D. If Annunen fails, we can't make a Devan Dubnyk trade and call it a day.
He did make some good saves when it was 3-1 and 3-2. Avs couldnt get that third goal and the Bruins wrecked them on the late PP. Avs played for 20 minutes probably. Didnt see the 1st or 3rd period.
My point is… he’s a guy who gets testy when somebody is challenging his job. Avs go get Allen, George could turn back into a drama queen (likely given his history). If he is going to be that sort of guy… he simply has to be better than he is. If he’s willing to fall to a platoon role, the Avs should go out and get a guy who can split with him.
Edmonton is playing like the Avs from 2-3 years ago and the Avs are playing like the Oilers from 2-3 years ago.
Yeah, Avs didn't show up in the first ten minutes, but a lot of Bruins goals in the first period were quite fluky to me. Miss passes right to unintended targets and random bounces straight to open Bruin sticks. We've had a few of those games go in our favour, so I ain't complaining about tonight, I am complaining because Avs should've won against the Habs.
Why weird? You eat booty or not?
Booty is often on the menu.
The Avs will go after him hard if he makes it to market.
I mean watch any team with a half decent goalie. They'll have multiple breakdowns each game. Guess what a half decent goalie does... makes a save. Now I'm not expecting George to make a save on every single breakdown that happens, thats unrealistic. But the whole point of a goalie is to help out every once in awhile when the defense breaks down. Or in Georges case when any puck comes in a 10ft radius of him.
