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Enjoy retirement, boys.
Irbe was pretty good here.. and he was free. He had some good years in Carolina during the dead puck and pillow pads era.
Post-Game Talk: Canucks 1, Predators 0: Expo Ernie Conquers the Sunsphere
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I doubt you watched the first period then. The preds were dominating and with brochu would have been 4-0 most likely.
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Shareefruck
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I meant now, in retrospect, everybody seems to lump him with some of the really awful ones.
LiquidSnake
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Alex Auld was never better than Cloutier.
The year Cloutier had a knee injury and missed the season, Auld took the starting job and the Canucks missed the playoffs.
Cloutier had pretty good reg season numbers. He was just terrible in the playoffs.
I did say they were dominating and Luongo was the reason it was 0-0.
sorry that was supposed to quote vector..
That is what I was going to say...tried to stay awake but couldn't. Glad they won.
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yup exactly what you said, for a defenseman to go unnoticed is a good thing, if they make a positive impact it's just a bonus for me. We already have Bieksa and Edler as our risk/reward defenseman, dont need Ballard to be another one. Although i would love to see him paired with Hamhuis while Bieksa is gone to see what he would play like in a situation where he could play his game that made him so successful before he came to Vancouver
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Because it changes day to day. And there's no really consistent, objective measure. Would you not say Schneider had an excellent game last game? Should he not have then been in net this game? After his shut-out should we not have ridden him?
It just seems to me that people are consistently suggesting we 'ride the hot hand' in the face of a more compressed schedule, and where management seems to have a specific plan as to who starts when. Not having a go at you specifically, more the fact that this seems to be mentioned every time either goalie plays well.
Yossarian54
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I think someone did an analysis of the last 3-4 years and it showed that .560 is the actual, consistent midpoint.
Schneider wasn't excellent last game. He let in a soft hard-angle goal on the first shot, and another on an unscreened backhand that I'm sure he'd love to have back. He was quite good in the Chicago game in which he got hung out to dry. However, by his own admission, he spotted Dallas two goals last Friday. Schneider hasn't yet had the consistency this year we've come to expect from him. He's been great in some games, and had others where he's sub-par by his usual standards.
So far I think AV has tried to give them equal minutes to avoid being seen as playing favorites. Luongo has 25 more minutes of ice time. When we get closer to the playoffs though, I think he'll ride whoever is having the better season.
Point percentage-wise, that's about right. 54 points should be enough to snag 8th in the West this season.
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ChilliBilly
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Potvin was actually decent during the regular season.
Sadly he let in one of the worst goals in hockey history against detroit in the playoffs, which will never be forgotten.
Sadly he let in one of the worst goals in hockey history against detroit in the playoffs, which will never be forgotten.
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By the way Benning should be fired.
ChilliBilly
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Wasnt Auld team MVP that year? We will never know how good Cloutier was as he came to Vancouver right when they were becoming a good team. We do know he wasnt any good anywhere else the same as Auld.
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Why not just run two goalies through the playoffs?
I just remember how exhausted Luongo looked during our run to the finals.
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