In retrospect, how good of a goalie was Brian Elliott?

[Bjornar Moxnes]

Perfect answer, GOAT level.
Elliott was fine and our D was a tire fire since Martin left the org. It's ironic that Murray, ever led by impulse and emotion, went for Anderson since if we'd kept Elliott until the off-season we may have had Landeskog...and our team would be much different.

Elliott would be the perfect #2, #1B on a strong team.

We got Zibanejad and a legit starting goalie. I'm more than happy with the trade. We should have just kept Zbad instead of the Brassard trade.

 

[ESH]

Played behind an elite defensive team and was just good enough to not sabotage it for them, those stats don't belong to him they belong to the Blues defense. That's all anyone can ask for though, just good enough to not sabotage the team. 75% of winning goalies since the salary cap fall into that category.

That’s really not fair to say about Elliott.

Those stats belong to him because he was the one in net stopping those pucks. Those Blues teams were excellent defensively, but that doesn’t mean that Elliott didn’t also play great for them.

In his time with the Blues, Elliott had the best Sv% by a pretty decent margin, lowest GAA, and most shutouts.

 

[HabzSauce]

I thought of him in the same vein as a Craig Anderson. Not top tier goalies, but hung around in the league a long time as a solid option and occasionally went on a heater where they could hold their own against the best.

Anderson was criminally underrated. That guy was an absolute beast especially in playoffs

 

[tarheelhockey]

Anderson was criminally underrated. That guy was an absolute beast especially in playoffs

I agree. His biggest problem was that his career was full of wild ups and downs, so he couldn’t keep a reputation bandwagon going for very long. Again this is part of why he came to mind as part of that group that Elliott could be compared to. Guy Hebert was also like this, in an earlier era.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

To me he's always my example/posterchild for the modern high-end platoon/1B style goalie.

Excellent in small bursts, but can't hold up to a starter's workload. Almost without fail he (and similar goalies) put up great numbers in 30-35 games but the moment the cross the 40 game threshold they just turn into pumpkins. it's uncanny.

It's why guys who started 50+ games--especially 60+ games--are underrated throughout the last little while. platoon/replacement level style goaltending? Easy to find. "The guy" who can carry you thru the playoffs pretty reliably (yes there are one-year exceptions)? there's only like 10 in the world at any given time who can handle it.

 

[Ignatius]

Could be great in the regular season but could not be counted on in the playoffs.

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

To me he's always my example/posterchild for the modern high-end platoon/1B style goalie.

Excellent in small bursts, but can't hold up to a starter's workload. Almost without fail he (and similar goalies) put up great numbers in 30-35 games but the moment the cross the 40 game threshold they just turn into pumpkins. it's uncanny.

It's why guys who started 50+ games--especially 60+ games--are underrated throughout the last little while. platoon/replacement level style goaltending? Easy to find. "The guy" who can carry you thru the playoffs pretty reliably (yes there are one-year exceptions)? there's only like 10 in the world at any given time who can handle it.

Even outside of the Blues, he couldn't handle a 30-35 game workload.

 

[Iggys Dome]

Skip to 2:32 and you'll see why this guy is not popular in Calgary. He also let an absolute softy from the wall in game 4 and got pulled like 4 minutes into the game lol.

 

[OKR]

The guy made the All-star team and had the highest SV% in the league twice and posted .909 and 2.57 GAA career stats, saying he was anything below good feels disrespectfull.

 

[Mobiandi]

Extremely mentally fragile. One of the worst goalies whenever you needed a save. Doesn’t belong in the same breath as Craig Anderson, he’s multiple levels below

 

[Xspyrit]

Skip to 2:32 and you'll see why this guy is not popular in Calgary. He also let an absolute softy from the wall in game 4 and got pulled like 4 minutes into the game lol.

wow these Goals against are horrible, he single handedly lost the game.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

His record year statwise, he still looked meh. Blues covered up a lot that year.

 

[Rubi]

I was really disappointed in him when he was a Flame in 2016-17.
And I think he's been broken ever since

 

[TheOrganist]

That’s really not fair to say about Elliott.

Those stats belong to him because he was the one in net stopping those pucks. Those Blues teams were excellent defensively, but that doesn’t mean that Elliott didn’t also play great for them.

In his time with the Blues, Elliott had the best Sv% by a pretty decent margin, lowest GAA, and most shutouts.

Agreed. There’s something to be said for a goalie who doesn’t see a lot of action playing behind a stout defensive team but needs to comes up with 3 or 4 timely saves in a game. There’s almost more pressure on a goalie who doesn’t get a heavy workload. It’s an underrated trait and Elliott was very good in that regard during his time as a Blue.