Value of: Saros

[Peat]

People who think wins is the most important goalie stat probably believe that the wheel is a crazy new-fangled invention that will never catch on.

 

[herzausstein]

Saros is not a top 5 goalie. He is a serviceable goalie that needs a good backup. Look at his game logs each year he has losing streaks that have hurt the final standing. Sv percentage and other metrics do not mean a whole lot as the losses continue to pile up. If he was a top 5 guy in the league I could agree that no offer would make sense with the predicament this team is in. As the team sits at the moment it is a 85 to 90 point team. That is if the young guys do in fact work out, so does this in Trotz eyes present moving him for the best off? That’s possible. In a team that is done with their rebound looking for a starter for 55 to 60 games it makes sense. If a team is just starting the rebuild like the Preds Saros makes little sense. He is not capable of taking the team on his back like Pekka was. Having a hood starter for the next three or four years is not going to mean much to the team. Remember Trotz has stated that he intends to rebuild the traditional way. Most Pred fans here just refuse to except that yet they pine to see the team get younger and faster. You can not have both there going to have to suck for x amount of time. If Trotz was able he would move Johansen, Duchene and possibly Forsberg as well because they do not fit in the timeframe of his rebuild. Outside Josi the D has been pretty much gutted in the last couple years how Poile did this is confusing. Since day one he had iced a ever improving D until the Subban debacle since then the D has become average.

I would like to hear what Trotz and the new coaching staff’s direction is. I don’t think GM Trotz will expect the same coaching system he used in Nashville. Or I hope it’s not he will expect defense reliability for all but he will also want increased scoring just to keep up with the league.

Not a top 5 goalie... there is probably a way that you could legitimately argue that in an intelligent manner. If you want to argue it based on a goalie having a bad game streak here and there, youre gonna need something that backs up your claim that Saros' is worse off than other goalies. From what i can find digging through stats, over the past three seasons with goalies more than 90 games played (34 goalies meet this)... saros is 5th in % of games started with a > .900 % (66.7%) just a hair below Shesterkin (67.4%) and a couple % better than both Helle (62.3%) and Vasi (63.6%).