That's pretty much where I'm at now with not only Jarry but the Pens as a whole.
I don't want to hear "we did some good things but....". Win a game. Win multiple games. That's what you're here for. There are no moral victories.
Or actually don't because tbh we could reallllly use Sullivan getting fired as well as a top 5 pick lol
The thing about this is its easy to say ok well Jarry was shit - That is the easiest thing to say about any game Jarry starts in these days. It's true. Nedeljkovic has also been a shit show like Jarry though, I would rather go with Blomqvist/Larsson.
But when a goalie bails out a turnover, it's "we're lucky X bailed us out in net." - Right?
OR if we see Letang clear the crease of a shot that somehow sneaks through in traffic and is inching towards the goal line we say "What a great goal line clear by Kris Letang!" - Right?
So in this instance, two things are true - Jarry let in 2 goals he should have had.
Also true - the two bad goals Jarry let in, were also plays created because of lazy defensive plays that led to those chances in the first place and sadly enough, if they play some actual defense, they don't leave it in the hands of a shaky as f*** goalie, which they ended up doing and what happened was what we all figured would, a collapse and Jarry allowing bad goals.
You have a goalie that is an absolute dumpster fire 99% of the time he plays, the way they decide to play in front of him is be out shot 25-10 in the 2nd, 3rd, and OT. At that point, you basically just want to lose the game by letting the other team see a goalie that's pretty awful (even if he had a .914sv% which is good for his stats to trade him I guess). That to me is the problem. Usually this team played tighter in front of Ned and looser in front of Jarry. This year, Blomqvist and Jarry faced a ton of shots, Ned faced fewer and neither goalie is allowing less than 3 goals per game, now they don't play either way, they play neither loose defense or tighter defense, they just don't play any defense (
although they still seem to play tighter in front of Ned and still blow leads, you'd need prime Hasek to bail these idiots out with the awful coaching they get).
The bigger issue here is that neither goalie is allowing less than 3 goals a game. I don't give two f***s what dumb shit narrative some of the idiots here want to make it out to be - 100% of us here agree Jarry needs to be traded. I am in the boat that wants Jarry and Ned both gone and play Blomqvist and Larsson, whichever one is the back-up is inconsequential at this stage. But the bigger issue has been zero defensive structure. They play absolute crap defensively and Crosby has been one of the most guilty forwards of it on this team and if your leader that was known for being a reliable 200ft player is playing like dog shit, that's 100% coaching right there because what Sid is doing, the defense is doing as a unit and the overall team Defense is doing consistently - being dog shit in their own end.
Does it matter who's in net anymore? Absolutely not unless someone wants to just bitch about a name to feel better about themselves, because Ned was allowing 3+, Blom was allowing 3+, Jarry in his last 2 starts has allowed 4.5.
Saves per 60 - Blomqvist led the entire league.
Jarry oddly enough is for 3rd with Dostal at 34.5
Nedeljkovic is ranked 46th with 27.7 saves per 60.
Jarry has been moist ass but still somehow is better at saving high danger shots, could this team win more games if they allowed as few shots against Blom or a dumpster fire in Jarry like they do Ned? Ned has also been one of the worst goalies for the Pens this season, I think by comparison to how awful Jarry has been, Ned looks better but really when you dig into his metrics, not by much. For how few shots he faces, he needs to be better and hasn't been. But again, it falls to how f***ing awful the defense is, why do they somehow play a better structure in front of Ned who blows leads as well, but then couldn't for the other two? What kind of shit game planning is that?
This is a team that desperately needs a new coach, the system is so crap and when it does do "something" there's still a ton of issues.
This is in no defense to Jarry, Ned, or Blomqvist. This is a criticism of how f***ing shitty this team is coached.
At this point they might as well call up Larsson and see if they can allow around 30 shots or less like they do for Ned and if he can somehow play some Vezina level of goaltending to win games, because only Blomqvist could and even he started to break behind this defense.
