Is Sergei Bobrovsky still a top 10 goalie?

[Video Nasty]

No...but reputation does.

What does this mean?

What rep did Bob have going into his first Vezina win? And what didn't make him the deserving choice over Holtby for his second?

Bob is about as spotty as I've ever seen. Seems like he has two good-excellent seasons followed up by two average-bad seasons like clockwork.

He can't be relied on for the playoffs of course.

Doesn't mean he's not awesome when he's on in the regular season. Very deserving of both of his Vezinas and he's only about to turn 32 so he still has some life in him. It wouldn't remotely shock me to see him win 3-4 Vezinas and then have everyone scratching their heads as they try to figure out if he had a Hall of Fame career.

 

[Hockeyholic]

Judging by his career, he’s due to win the Vezina again next year.

If he does that, he has to be a shoe in for the Hall of fame. No matter what he does for the rest of his career. Three Vezina wins. Wow.

 

[Ace of Hades]

The only goalies I'd for sure rank over him are:

Vasilevskiy
Hellebuyck
Rask
Gibson
Price
Bishop
Markstrom
Lehner

Even with his terrible season, I'd put him in the Andersen, Hart, Grubauer tier.

Excellent avatar mate.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Yes, not going to throw out his resume over one year with a new team

 

[aufheben]

In the NHL or the AHL?

 

[Mr Positive]

no

However, goalies are like this. Binnington was bad too, and the short term narrative against him is that he was "solved" but I don't think so.

There's a lot of bounce back potential. Ideally Florida tries to help him out by changing the D somehow.

Just look at Price. Some confidence and support, and boom. His high cap hit is still eyebrow raising but he looked worth it for much of these playoffs. Something we couldn't say for a long while before that.

 

[biturbo19]

What does this mean?

What rep did Bob have going into his first Vezina win? And what didn't make him the deserving choice over Holtby for his second?

Bob is about as spotty as I've ever seen. Seems like he has two good-excellent seasons followed up by two average-bad seasons like clockwork.

He can't be relied on for the playoffs of course.

Doesn't mean he's not awesome when he's on in the regular season. Very deserving of both of his Vezinas and he's only about to turn 32 so he still has some life in him. It wouldn't remotely shock me to see him win 3-4 Vezinas and then have everyone scratching their heads as they try to figure out if he had a Hall of Fame career.

Once a guy has "arrived" like that...they tend to just hang around the media perception for a long time to come. Win one Vezina, and the media is going to tout the guy like he's a perennial Vezina candidate. That's how it works. That's why Bob was signed to an absolutely catastrophic contract.

 

[Lemontree]

If you basing it only on performance and ignore his contract that probably. He tends to have dramatic yo-yo like swings from 1 year to the next. If history repeats its-self than next year the question is likely to be......"Is Bob a top 3 goalie?"

 

[nowhereman]

I still think he's capable of playing at an elite level but it's difficult to predict whether or not he will. He's wildly inconsistent.

Either way, I have zero sympathy for the Panthers. They stronged-armed Luongo into retiring, rather than rightly going on LTIR, so that they could milk the necessary cap space to sign Bobrovsky. Now that the Canucks are saddled with an asinine recapture penalty, I wont pretend I'm not happy to see Florida paying for that signing in more ways than one.

 

[1865]

No, but he could be again next year.