Beat St.Louis because they are trash and stole not one but, two points from us last time we played. LGFD!
They play shittier than their record suggests. Still have a goalie who can steal one and some finish as we know.
Almost every team, other than Vancouver without Demko out has a goalie who can steal one. Binnington has literally been worse than some of the goalies on the absolute worst teams in the NHL this year. Binnington is jealous of John Gibson right now, who has been better behind a way worse team.
I think they play even shittier than his play would suggest though. Their 5 on 5 numbers have been below average for the third straight year now.
After looking at evolving hockey, his GSAx is not nearly as bad as his GSAA, so there's reason to believe they are making him look worse this year. He has a GSAA of -16.27 but his GSAx is only -7.17 on the year. He hasn't been that much worse than the cremains of Marc-Andre Fleury, who plays on a much better defensive team.
That said, he's still 73rd out of 82 in GSAx.
On moneypuck he's 80th out of 91 with a -9.3 GSAx. He's better than John Gibson on their site, but considerably worse on evolving hockey's models.
I don't know if I trust moneypuck's goalie models as much as evolving hockey's though. They have Marc-Andre Fleury as just a -2.3 GSAx on their site (he's a -7.03 on evolving hockey), as well as Blackwood having a slightly better goals saved above expected per 60 over Vitek.