Not to mention the team gave him 5 goals of support. This wasn't a case of a goalie stealing a game.
If I had to guess you also think Demko is playing average and it's just the Canucks defense that is at fault that his record and stats are terrible. These are NHL goalies, they are supposed to make saves on high danger scoring chances. It drives me nuts when Demko shat the bed, and we have people defend him by saying every goal was too hard to save. Martin had a good game for an NHL goalie, but he wasn't lights out and he certainly wasn't the only reason the Canucks won.
If I had to guess you also think that the difference between how Demko and Martin have played so far this year has been massive.
Team is playing looser and you can see it, not uptight and worrying about mistakes etc. This is a team coming together after a bunch of public scrutiny and embarrassment from fans all the way to management.
It’s Myers and Boeser who unfortunately need to go in order to accommodate salary cap complications as Horvat and Kuzmenko will need raises. Miller just signed and OEL is unfortunately making too much and has no value + NTC. Lekkerimaki you hope comes in eventually and takes Boesers space and we find a UFA to replace Myers in the offseason with the CAP apparently going up 4 million as well.
Demko will find his game but I’m not going to lie, Martin I bet has some serious value building and we are lucky we singed him to a 2 year deal. A cost controlled Backup to a contender could be worth a ton come trade deadline to a team like the Leafs, depending our position as well in the standings.
I still think we should be in sell mode in order to rebuild the roster properly up the Middle and on Defence, we have the Goalie despite his season so far. If we can unload Miller, Boeser, Myers, Pearson and can use the picks/money to gain a true defensive 3C and two top 4 RHS Dmen (Severson, Zub, Mayfield) we could be in good shape.
Cheers
Hmm? The stats match the eye test: Demo has been shite, Martin has been good.
There were a couple of big saves early but this was far far from a game we were carried. Vegas could have had 3 or 4 goals but we could have gotten ten. Logan Thompson had a really good game.
I think it is just really important for people to understand that THIS was the 1st game where he actually did play significantly better than Demko this year.
I definitely agree even if you're getting push back on this.
Martin definitely came up with a couple of good saves at the start from the slot, but I think Vegas didn’t have a lot of traffic in front of the net and Martin could see most of the shots after that and Vegas fluffed a few chances entirely. You expect an NHL goalie to save the vast majority of those. I don’t think this was a steal by the goalie, but a good performance.
