Pre-Game Talk: Week of Make a F***ing Save, Damnit! vs NYI (Mon 7PM); vs BOS (Wed 7:30PM); vs ANA (Fri 7PM); @ SJ (Sun 6PM)

[katfude]

If we lose both of these games I'm done for a bit. I don't need this in my life.

 

[Grackle Party]

Im guessing L vs the ducks and they finally win vs the Sharks

 

[SirLoinOfCloth]

I'm going for nothing but Ws for the rest of October.

 

[the_fan]

Please tell me Fourgiev isn't starting tonight. Although 0-5 would be pretty funny.

NHL network showed the stats of teams going winless to start the season. I forgot what was the percentage but there is 20 or 40% chance of making the playoffs if you go 0-4 but no team has ever made the playoffs going 0-5.

 

[Chileiceman]

So Georgie Porgie is starting again? For the life of me I don't understand. Even if he was playing lights out, resting him every 5th game would be a good thing to do. But to keep trotting him out there when he is a total dumpster fire is just baffling.

 

[Avs_19]

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

 

[henchman21]

He’s bound to win a game eventually.

 

[MacKaRant]

He’s bound to win a game eventually.

Team in front of him needs to score 7 or 8, yeah

 

[HockeyFan100]

I'm probably one of the biggest Bednar supporters on this board but maybe it's time to move on. Not only is George playing like crap but he's running him into the ground again on top of that. Lose-lose.

 

[Muffin]

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

0-5. Seriously wtf is he starting again? Even if he was playing well you don't start a guy 5 games in a row. Fire Bednar. Seriously

 

[HockeyFan100]

0-5. Seriously wtf is he starting again? Even if he was playing well you don't start a guy 5 games in a row. Fire Bednar. Seriously

Don't worry - this time for SURE he's going to have a great game

 

[Pokecheque]

0-5. Seriously wtf is he starting again? Even if he was playing well you don't start a guy 5 games in a row. Fire Bednar. Seriously

Look again at who the other option is.

 

[henchman21]

Team in front of him needs to score 7 or 8, yeah

Doesn’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning is winning.

 

[Muffin]

Look again at who the other option is.

Surely he can't be -9.5 goals saved above expected bad. Honestly the only way out of this is to keep losing and for Fourgiev and completely crash and burn.

 

[HockeyFan100]

Look again at who the other option is.

We literally haven't seen Annunen start a game this season.

 

[Pokecheque]

Surely he can't be -9.5 goals saved above expected bad. Honestly the only way out of this is to keep losing and for Fourgiev and completely crash and burn.

He's literally been worse, especially when you consider that he's been in for far less time.

 

[SirLoinOfCloth]

Starting Georgiev is a truly damning reflection on how the team views Annunen. George at the moment is our best hope, he was better last game than the first three. Hopefully he trends upwards and can work his way out of the funk.

 

[Pokecheque]

We literally haven't seen Annunen start a game this season.

So he's going to magically be better simply because they name him the starter despite the fact that he is an objectively worse goalie in almost every facet!?

 

[dahrougem2]

At this rate if Annunen starts next game he's only on track to play 17 games while Georgiev is on track to play 65.

Only 19 times has a goalie since 12-13 played 65 or more games, 11 goalies overall with some doing it more than once.

Asinine. Truly unexplainable how much Bednar keeps throwing the guy back out.

 

[HockeyFan100]

So he's going to magically be better simply because they name him the starter despite the fact that he is an objectively worse goalie in almost every facet!?

He's played 2 games in relief, not really a sample size there. Let's see what happens when he actually starts a game.

 

[Avs_19]

So he's going to magically be better simply because they name him the starter despite the fact that he is an objectively worse goalie in almost every facet!?

He very well could be worse and I don't have high hopes but how about actually giving him a shot rather than him coming in cold when they're losing and the team is already demoralized due to Georgiev being a disaster.

 

[Aves Fren]

Doesn’t matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning is winning.

Georgiev looks at the puck in the net, smiles and says "Dude I almost had you!"

 

[Pokecheque]

He very well could be worse and I don't have high hopes but how about actually give him a shot rather than him coming in cold when they're losing and the team is already demoralized due to Georgiev being a disaster.

A backup has to at least make a routine save, cold or not, which is something Annunen is BARELY doing. The defense did not collapse once he was in, even demoralized they still played well enough to keep the game close.

I agree there is a point where they'll simply have to try someone else if Georgiev doesn't figure it the f*** out but that time is not now, certainly not with Annunen the way he's playing.

 

[Muffin]

He's literally been worse, especially when you consider that he's been in for far less time.

He literally has not. Has he been good? No. Is he better than the worst goalie in the league? Yes.

 

[Pokecheque]

He literally has not. Has he been good? No. Is he better than the worst goalie in the league? Yes.
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Again, how much time has Annunen been in there and yet he still has comparable numbers to Georgiev (a difference of 0.183)?