zeke
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OK well we're 4-1 with our backups in net and the only loss was when our offense got shut out despite getting 7pps.
So describe it any way you think is appropriate.
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OK well we're 4-1 with our backups in net and the only loss was when our offense got shut out despite getting 7pps.
So describe it any way you think is appropriate.
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All I can say is that last week, pre-Fred injury, I said we shouldn't be worried about playing Hutchinson "even a little bit".
And that wasn't necessarily a compliment to Hutchinson, in particular.
Would I prefer a rotation of guys rather than starting Fred game in game out and automatically come playoffs time? oh hell yes I would.
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So you'd want a 3 goalie rotation? I'm genuinely asking because I dont know if that's actually been done. I guess this would be the year to do it, given the taxi squad situation.
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At this point if the Leafs have anymore stretches of 4 games in 6 nights there is no reason for Freddy to be playing more then 2 of them. Whom gets the starts in the others, I dont know and dont care. Both Hutch and Campbell have shown the ability to give us good starts.
If anything it shows how far this team has come defensively since last year. Maybe Hutch wasnt as bad as everyone made him out to be. The defense was horrible as a team.
If anything it shows how far this team has come defensively since last year. Maybe Hutch wasnt as bad as everyone made him out to be. The defense was horrible as a team.
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I am not in favour of a rotation for the sake of a rotation. Only if Freddy struggles game 1, for example, then it would be fine to switch.
zeke
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no not 3 goalies.
rotating Campbell and Freddy equally would be a nice place to start though.
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Hmm.
Let's go with "Our addiction to starting Fred come hell or high water is hurting us".
It's going to be 2045, and you're still going to be talking about a bad stretch for Hutch in 2019-2020. My god, let it go already. He's been fine. You were wrong about the sky falling.
Has Hutch really been good though? Or is the defensive play just a lot better overall than people want to believe and credit?
Game 1 he was poor and looked uncomfortable. Don't confuse posts and pucks hitting him with solid play.
Game 2 - I missed
Game 3 - He allows 1 goal, likely faced 2-3 chances l game. Seems like he played fine. You could want a shutout, likely unfair to expect a goalie to allow 2 or more with our D play last night
Game 1 he was poor and looked uncomfortable. Don't confuse posts and pucks hitting him with solid play.
Game 2 - I missed
Game 3 - He allows 1 goal, likely faced 2-3 chances l game. Seems like he played fine. You could want a shutout, likely unfair to expect a goalie to allow 2 or more with our D play last night
zeke
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yep, the leafs are not a goalie-dependent team.
It’s a fair question to look at his high danger save percentage and shot attempts against, and see how he’s doing in different ways… I’m just not the guy to offer that information, I wouldn’t even know where to look. Ha.
Suffice it to say though, he has saved a lot of pucks when he’s needed to.
And aside from last night, it’s not because it was a low shot total against.
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Hutch has been great no question. But 4 games doesnt mean that he is now better than our starter. But a good story all around. Leafs overcoming their achilles heel in the reg season from last year should be a huge relief.
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flames were playing a super-trap game in both games, so weren't peppering him with quality chances, that's for sure.
then again, Hutch didn't do anything to make any chances look more dangerous than they were. I even saw him cross the crease not once but twice on the same passing play and somehow not flop down flailing on his stomach, like some other goalies are wont to do. He ended up making a very easy looking save on that second cross-slot pass to a one-timed slapper.
To be fair you've never liked him so I take that with a grain of salt.
I feel his play has come down some but I don't see a reason it cannot go back up, especially if our team defense keeps tightening up.
He was good this season until the injury barring a couple games
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I liked him fine. He's been a good #1 workhorse goalie for us for most of his career, until last year and this year where he's been poor. He was never the elite goalie saving our butts that leafs nation claimed he was at the start, and he's not giving us quality goaltending this year or last year like leafs nation claims he is.
OK I thought it was you I had some lengthy debates with when we first acquired him and you were touting Reimer over him. My apologies if I misremembered.
And statistically he was an elite, top 10 goalie for a few years iirc and he did put on great performances for the fans especially when this team was fresh
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borderline top-10 performances, and hockey media was calling him team mvp vezina candidate bailing us out and the only reason we could win.
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I don't remember this at all. Maybe some people claimed this but most of us saw him as a solid #1 goalie and possibly a top 10 goalie which is exactly what he was for a few years.
Andersen's been good for us overall!
I'm not talking about the media though. The only media stuff I hear is during the intermission and I only half listen to that, though I do recall he was top 3 in vezina voting one year. Seems like a ligit claim
Ps I'm of the thought a goalie can never be the onky reason you win games. IMO it's a team game. Sure all players have good and bad games and the goalie position is really affected by that, but that's why it's about the overall level of performance in the net. 60ish games with a 918sv% is flipping good
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