Last year Sandin threw 2 games, Dermott threw a game and Galchenyuk threw a game. We were the significantly better team. We lost because our skaters literally made 4 players that threw 4 games.
Not sure how you came to the conclusion that Vasilevsky is absolutely guaranteed to post a 1.90 GAA average and .920+ svp. You do realize our skaters also determine what his numbers look like right ? They have to solve Matthews/Marner and co. or did you forget about them ? Matthews is pacing for 60+ goals AGAIN, how do you expect Vasilevsky to stop him when he's scoring at such a ridiculous rate ? Seems like you're all over Tampa and forget that our players also determine how the series plays out. My math works out like this, if Matthews/Marner are scoring at the rate they are scoring, Vasilevsky will have much worse numbers than 1.900 GAA and .927 svp
Also if we significantly outshoot/out possess them, the svp matters less. They can have 2 goals on 10 shots, we can have 3 goals on 40 shots. Which goalies numbers are better ? Which goalie won the game ? #Math
If Soup allows 20 goals in 1 game, and records 4 consecutive shutouts, his GAA will be atrocious, but he gets 4 shut outs and wins. #Math
As you can see math isn't that hard, you just came to our own pre-determined conclusions of what the svp, gaa etc. will be for Tampa for whatever reason.
Also if we get average goaltending our gaa/svp will be significantly higher, because frankly the goals against us have been absolute dog shit goals pretty much the entire year. An average goalie easily stops those and probably ends up with 4-5 shutouts since January.
