98.5 The Sports Hub Bruins coach Jim Montgomery reveals playoff goaltending plan on ‘Toucher & Hardy’ debut
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I'm rich I can do whatever I want! Lol MARW
This may be their intention but we all know lots of things can happen between now and the playoffs. We shall see, it's about 4 months away, let the team get there first.
If it started today, yes I rotate every damn game in the playoffs just like they do now. Kinda weird if suddenly the coach is preaching mental demands and benefits of rest days when he rode a very clearly injured Ullmark for 6 straight games last year
Maybe he's learned his lesson. You'd have to hope the playoffs taught him a thing or two and those learnings will stick for next time.
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Beating Florida in game 7 wouldn't have healed Ullmark, Lindholm, Bergeron or Krejci.
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Here's the thing though
1) Your game 1 goalie is your game 7 goalie. So in many ways you are picking one key one
2) Down 0-2 in a series, everyone has a plan till they're punched in the mouth.
3) After 4 games if one goalie is .940 and one is .898, you mean to tell me you'll keep rotating?
So yes Monty, I believe you'll rotate goalies if you're up in a series, or they are playing very similarly. But know what? That's not going to be the case most of the time broseph. So we don't believe you.
1) Your game 1 goalie is your game 7 goalie. So in many ways you are picking one key one
2) Down 0-2 in a series, everyone has a plan till they're punched in the mouth.
3) After 4 games if one goalie is .940 and one is .898, you mean to tell me you'll keep rotating?
So yes Monty, I believe you'll rotate goalies if you're up in a series, or they are playing very similarly. But know what? That's not going to be the case most of the time broseph. So we don't believe you.
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There’s just no winning for Monty is there? Doesn’t rotate goaltending in the playoffs? “What an idiot! Why wouldn’t you do what worked all year??”
Says he plans to:
“What an idiot!! Doesn’t he know that would never work ever??!”
Maybe it’s just not an easy decision?
Says he plans to:
“What an idiot!! Doesn’t he know that would never work ever??!”
Maybe it’s just not an easy decision?
I've been critical of Montgomery but it's not an easy decision at all.
Goaltending is their strongest suit.
You must admit that strict adherence to rotation in the playoffs -- assuming that's the plan, and I have my doubts -- is unconventional and fraught with challenges.
Typically, you go with the hot hand regardless, and when push comes to shove, this may prove the case.
But it's also true that this isn't a typical tandem. A strong argument can be made that both are excellent No. #1 goaltenders. It's an unseal circumstance.
Perhaps more important, neither are experienced playoff performers, and neither have had playoff success.
It's not fair but contemplating Linus Ullmark's physical and mental stamina over consecutive regular season starts, never mind playoff starts, is an entirely legitimate question.
Given that, maybe strict rotation is the way to go with this particular tandem. Armchair critics like me couldn't argue that Montgomery overtaxed one or the other with mental or physical fatigue.
As you say, it isn't an easy decision because it 'a novel situation and many factors must be considered.
It's a fascinating state of affairs and it makes me nervous.
Sincere good luck to all involved.
We shall see,
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Monty reinventing the wheel is laughable.Ullmark has stunk in playoffs and was hurt was report I read. No buisness in that net after gaffe in game 5 is my opinion.Swayman should have been in before game 7.
