I'm meeting them in Utah and not there tonight, but because of this wonky start time, there won't be a morning skate so no one will know until warmups.
Pre-Game Talk: Week of the road warriors @SEA (Tuesday @6:30PM) @UTAH (Thursday @7:00PM)
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Hopefully we left Fourgiev on that sad little chair on the other side of the rink in San Jose.
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On my way home from work today, I was listening to an interesting goalie segment on Real Kyper and Bourne show on TSN 1050 featuring Steve Valiquette.
Valy is the President and CEO of Clear Sight Analytics.
He was ranking the goalies so far this year.
No surprise, he said Georgiev has been far and away the worst goaltender in the NHL this year. He said he is having a historically bad start and you'd have to go back just over 30 years to identify a worse 5 game stretch of any goaltender in history; Steve Weeks over a 7 game period in '92-'93 for the Ottawa Senators. Since advanced stats have come in, their database can't find a match even close to how bad Georgiev has been.
One stat that I found particularly hilarious/sad is he stated that across the entire NHL this year, only 10 goals have been scored from "dead ice." Of those 10, Georgiev alone has allowed 4 of them. None of the other 6 offenders have allowed more than 1.
For those unaware, this is considered "dead ice." Basically an impossible angle that a goalie should never get beaten from.
In closing, he said he's shocked the Avs even went 5 games with this albatross of a goaltending performance and would be equally as shocked if they went back to him until all other options have completely imploded.
Valy is the President and CEO of Clear Sight Analytics.
He was ranking the goalies so far this year.
No surprise, he said Georgiev has been far and away the worst goaltender in the NHL this year. He said he is having a historically bad start and you'd have to go back just over 30 years to identify a worse 5 game stretch of any goaltender in history; Steve Weeks over a 7 game period in '92-'93 for the Ottawa Senators. Since advanced stats have come in, their database can't find a match even close to how bad Georgiev has been.
One stat that I found particularly hilarious/sad is he stated that across the entire NHL this year, only 10 goals have been scored from "dead ice." Of those 10, Georgiev alone has allowed 4 of them. None of the other 6 offenders have allowed more than 1.
For those unaware, this is considered "dead ice." Basically an impossible angle that a goalie should never get beaten from.
In closing, he said he's shocked the Avs even went 5 games with this albatross of a goaltending performance and would be equally as shocked if they went back to him until all other options have completely imploded.
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Valy seriously underestimates the stubbornness of Bednar and the Avs.
Like 5 games to start the season or 5 games total? And is that 5 games consecutively or like a backup sucking 5 times over a few months?
Either way - woof
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5 straight games, period. At any point of any regular season or playoffs. Starter, backup, call-up, anybody. No goalie has had as bad of xGAA, GSAx, etc.
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You can’t possibly expect better than that for 3.5m.
Literally nobody can make the saves we're asking him to.
