It would be nice if some day our team was built without having almost 100% of the pressure on our goalie.
It's the preseason chill...
#1 goalies on almost every team, usually has sub par performances in the preseason. None of them put too much into their pre seasons....
Price is no different
The point is that 10m+ doesn't equate to a player being able to carry the team.
So all the whining about how Price should carry us because he makes 10m is just BS. No player can carry a team by himself, and 10m isn't the salary you would give a guy who could.
As for the stats, a forward's stats are less dependent on the team in front of him then the goalies stats. SV% is extremely dependent on how good a job the team is doing keeping shots to the outside. A goalie is going to have a bad SV% and GAA if the team that gives up the slot constantly.
For forwards, it's a lot easier to produce even if you don't have a lot of help from teamates.
Do you also expect a forward being paid 8 figures to carry the team on his back? If so does that mean McDavid isn't living up to his contract?
And more importantly, if a single player can carry the team by himself, and that should cost you 10m. How come there are a bunch of teams out there with multiple 10m+ players? How can the team with only 1 of those players compete with a team that has multiple?
Err...but Anderson didn't face the likes of Matthews, Marner or Tavares. Our offense that he faced is...well...lacking. Embarrassingly so.
That's the one thing that threw me off last night. The commentators did say he looked small on one of the plays and I completely agree. He's a big dude and even when he used to be on his pads he still looked big. Last night he was on his pads but his torso was super low as well.Price is always on his knees. H is going down way sooner than he used to. I think this is to reduce the strain on his groin...but damn, he is not the same goalie.
question is do you expect a forward paid 8 figures to score goals and get assists? If McDavid had 50 points it would be ok?
Price doesn't have to carry the team, just play like a good goalie and stop 92% of your shots. Or you are OK with him giving the team sub .900%?
I dont want Price to carry the team, but if he is part of the solution not part of the problem I expect a .920 from him. .920 isn't even that elite in the NHL today.
Nieme had a .929 last year and the team still lost, at least he put up respectable numbers. But I am not going to blame his teammates all season long if he is giving the team .900 or less. Thats not acceptable for a 10.5 million goalie who some call one of the best.
Just like if Drouin puts up another 40 points this year he will get crapped on and no one is going to blame his linemates.
Price looks completely out of whack so far this pre-season ; what the heck is going on with him ?
Changed his stance
Lateral movements uncontrolled
Slow as f^€÷¢
Can we expect a repeat of last season ?
We probably can.
Weber is key to Carey's season. If carey/niemi can put reasonable performances together and have the team at .500 by the time he comes back it will be very interesting.
Somebody already said this but the quality of the goals against last night should come into consideration. No goalie in the world is stopping that Matthews shot, the Marleau goal was an absolutely terrible own-zone giveaway by Gally to two premier scorers in the league, and Petry played that 2 on 1 horribly. The fluke goal was half Petry half Price as well. The only one you could make a case for is Kadri's, which, maybe, but not a bad shot by any means.
I didn't really see anything to be super concerned about. As a goalie that's some normal adjustments when trying to get back into form. If it continues then I'll wonder if that chronic fatigue issue isn't fully fixed.