Convert scoring chances more consistently and stop making bad turnovers. People will blame bad "puck luck" but at some point you've gotta admit he has issues finishing scoring chances. At least he didn't in this game, which is nice to see.
No, we do not have to agree with your opinion because you keep saying it. I'm not aware of any metric that supports your opinion, but every metric I can find leads to the exact opposite conclusion.
His shooting percentage this year is 11.5% and his career shooting percentage is 13.1%. Those are strong numbers that do not indicate that he has issues finishing chances.
Since the start of the 2023/24 season, he is tied for 11th in goals at 5 on 5 despite being 55th in individual expected goals and 85th in individual high danger chances at 5 on 5. In all situations, he is tied for 36th in goals, but is 71st in individual expected goals and 115th in individual high danger chances.
His individual expected goals this season at 5 on 5 is currently 4.92 but he has 7 actual goals at 5 on 5. In the previous 3 seasons he has had 22 goals at 5 on 5 each year despite his expected goal total being 16 or lower each year.
He has 249 shots at 5 on 5 since the start of the 2023/24 season and an 11.49% shooting percentage. Here is the list of guys league wide with 200+ shots and a better shooting percentage at 5 on 5: Panarin, Hyman, Matthews, Rantanen, Tage, Kaprizov, Peterka, Connor, Nelson, Marchessault, Kucherov, MacKinnon, and Nylander. Here are some other notable 200+ shooters with lower shooting percentages than him: Pastrnak, Forsberg, Crosby, Hughes, McDavid, Horvat, Eichel, Necas, and DeBrincat. Are you claiming that a bunch of those guys also have issues finishing scoring chances?
Those 249 shots are 12th in the league. 10 of the 11 guys ahead of him also have more unblocked shot attempts than him. His shooting percentage isn't inflated because he is missing the net more than other volume shooters.
Nothing suggests that he has issues finishing scoring chances. In fact, everything suggests that he finishes chances at a very high level.
I think that you
wildly overestimate the frequency that scoring chances go into the net around the league, even among the league's top tier of players and 'finishers.' There are 66 goalies league wide who have played 1000+ minutes in the timeframe I pulled stats from. The worst high danger SV% from that group is 75.2% and the best is 88.4%. The best players/finishers in the game are going to fail to convert on high danger chances
substantially more often than they score them.