In my personal experience playing hockey, I found it a lot different. Being extremely tall made me a slow skater (and crappy player!) but good at disrupting passes and clearing the crease. Hay isn't that tall, but there are other skills that come into play.
If Bloom came back earlier he would have been near the top of the list too.
That's good for both teams and hoping for a good match up with Saginaw. If the regular season is an indication should be good
Thanks for the well wishes. Hope to see the Attack get back to some success in the near future. Always was a model small market team back in the 2010's. It's fun when the Bayshore has something to cheer for.
This series is all about goaltending. It has decided most of the games in the regular season and I think it will decided most of the playoff games too. With all due respect to Schenkel and Oke, they are both average goalies at best, not what you normally see on championship contenders. There's going to be a lot of goals.
I mean Oke was on USA's WJC team so he's perfectly fine as a starter. In any case, in the OHL, it almost is never about goal tending. Both teams only gave up 215 goals and that's mainly because they both like to posses the puck to reduce pressure on the D/G. It'll be more about who can maintain possession better.
I'll give Oke his flowers, he was very good against Owen Sound. He didn't see a whole lot of rubber but was pretty solid on the high danger chances. That glove save late in Game 3 on Barlow was a killer.
An .890 SV% isn't anything more than average, but he could have faced better quality chances than your average goaltender. You would know better than me.
Not worried about the save percentage. His GAA was sub 3. If we keep teams to 3 or under in a game, we likely win.
His GAA is only good because he plays on a team that doesn't give up a lot of shots. I think SV% is a far more reliable indicator of goaltender talent. Carter George is a great example of that.
There. You’ve almost got it. George can save a ton of shots but he’ll still give up more than 3 goals. I agree SV% is a better metric for talent but that’s something scouts can worry about for draft day. On game day though, goaltending numbers in junior are just about meaningless with respect to determining who will win because those numbers are mostly a function of the team in front of them.
It's interesting that in our 8 head to head matchups this season that the team with the shot advantage went 4-4, while the team with the better goaltending (by SV%) went 7-1, with that one loss being essentially even in shots (26-24) and decided in a shootout.
Its a shame the OHL doesn't keep track of shot charts or grade A chances. That would be far more informative that just raw shot totals. Or even o zone/d zone possession times would be great. 35 shots where most are from bad angle isn't the same as 15 where you get 5 breakaways. The whole series between the Soo and Saginaw was weird this season. They essentially only played 2 games against each other where the teams where in their current post deadline form and (fairly) healthy. It's hard to glean a ton from 2 games.
Was that our series where Don Cherry called us hot dogs for showboating all over national tv?
I have to agree with kingpins assessment on shot totals. The banner cry for Spirit fans was we outshot them x to <y. I listen to road games and don't have a tv cable package, and was begining to question these shot totals. Remember, earlier in the season it was the common gripe amoung the coaching staff that the team was being too cute and not shooting enough.
