Thebeastoftheeast
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- Sep 12, 2009
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Not worried about Zach at all- yes, he has been a little off from his usual solid play lately but this time last year he was at about an .890 and ended the year at .909 so after November last year he was going at about at least a .920 clip to have ended up there.
Posters who hate Zach, or have an irrational bias against him have to look at small windows to try and prove their assssment of his play. Take for instance Game 4 against Rouyn-Noranda in last year's playoffs where the Mooseheads won 9-6 to close out the series- 6.00 GAA and a SVP of .833. Anybody who just looking at the stats would say the Mooseheads won because they scored 9 goals to make up for Zach's poor play and say that whoever gave Zach 2nd star in that game was on something. But these people don't account for Zach keeping the Mooseheads in the game in the first when RN had 18 shots, most of them dangerous.
There are goalies in the Q who have much better stats than Zach- take Marcoux for example. But since BLB plays a stricter defensive style than the Mooseheads he doesn't get the dangerous shots that Zach faces.
Zach also makes the big save when it is required- the biggest one that I remember is the 2 on 1 against Portland with a 4-2 lead in the Mem Cup final, he makes a huge save and Drouin sends Mackinnon off and Konrad gets the rebound to make it 5-2.
Lastly, I would rather go by the word of hockey people like Cam Russell and Dominic Ducharme in their assessment of Fucale. They had him right up there with Nate and Jo as far as his importance in the Moosehead's championship season.
Posters who hate Zach, or have an irrational bias against him have to look at small windows to try and prove their assssment of his play. Take for instance Game 4 against Rouyn-Noranda in last year's playoffs where the Mooseheads won 9-6 to close out the series- 6.00 GAA and a SVP of .833. Anybody who just looking at the stats would say the Mooseheads won because they scored 9 goals to make up for Zach's poor play and say that whoever gave Zach 2nd star in that game was on something. But these people don't account for Zach keeping the Mooseheads in the game in the first when RN had 18 shots, most of them dangerous.
There are goalies in the Q who have much better stats than Zach- take Marcoux for example. But since BLB plays a stricter defensive style than the Mooseheads he doesn't get the dangerous shots that Zach faces.
Zach also makes the big save when it is required- the biggest one that I remember is the 2 on 1 against Portland with a 4-2 lead in the Mem Cup final, he makes a huge save and Drouin sends Mackinnon off and Konrad gets the rebound to make it 5-2.
Lastly, I would rather go by the word of hockey people like Cam Russell and Dominic Ducharme in their assessment of Fucale. They had him right up there with Nate and Jo as far as his importance in the Moosehead's championship season.
