Yes. And No. Him or Thomas or Schenn (injury) or Parayko or Tank or.. His play was a factor. Avs are damn good team and we needed almost everything to go our way to beat them.
Goalie controversy thread
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Lindgren was solid when he got a chance and played very well down in Springfield. There's nobody on the free agent list that strikes me as someone who you can trust to carry the team if Binnington were to get injured so we may as well bring back an affordable, familiar face who played well in the system.
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He offered him a contract, he declined. It's not always f***ing Army's fault. Holy hell
It seems that DA realizes Binny can't hold a true starter position and went out to get a guy that can play a dual starter role. I always liked that anyway. Our best goalie seasons these last 20 years were ones where we had a tandem team.
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There’s a reason Lindgren hasn’t stuck in the NHL full time. The dude barely has a save percentage over .900 in 170 AHL games.
JR with excellent article on Binny today. For all his limitations, JR is really good at these type of stories.
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It's a great article. Very cool to see Binner open up like that. Hope he has a bounce back year and can find the balance between love/anger.
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I don't subscribe to The Athletic, but your short description of the article speaks volumes.
There was a recent article on STLToday in which DA spoke about goaltenders and that there are not many great goaltenders right now and that that is partly why scoring has increased.
I'll take that a step further.
We fans consistently attribute long-term, successful goaltending to mental stability. I agree.
I'm willing to wager that the greatest goaltenders are able to compartmentalize their emotional issues. In other words, they've largely dealt with their respective traumas or other childhood baggage. They have a strong sense of self and identity/ego and are able to transcend their ego in order to manifest what it is they want.
To summarize the article, Binny said he always used his desire to prove folks wrong/anger at being underestimated to fuel him. But after making NHL, winning Cup, getting big $, etc.. he had nothing to be angry about. He had proven himself. So he struggled to find new way to focus.
And interesting anecdote about how Liut (former Blues great and Binny's agent) told him going into playoffs last year that he should seek to emulate Jake Allen and how awesome Jake was as a teammate and supporter of his after he stole Jake's job.
This would be true if we got Cup during his contact. But we haven’t. So judged solely on his play under this contract, he hasn’t lived up yet.
I don't think he was given his contract because we care about the regular season. These past playoffs was the reason he was given the contract and if it had not been for Kadri then I think we would have beaten Colorado.
