Yes. In 2015, Markov, Patch, Subban, Plekanec certainly were impactful players?
In 2016, as I said before, no #1 goalies no playoffs for a defensive team. Just look at the 3 times cup winner hawks and their record with/without Crawford :
It wouldn't be so bad if they still had Darling like the rangers when Lundqvist got injured and they had Talbot. But if you don't actually have a good backup, not even GREAT teams can do anything.
This season we are clearly not a great team, but Price is giving us zero chance with his play.
In 2017, Price got out dueled again in the playoffs. He was awful in the last 2 games in a super tight defensive series. Gave up softies when Lundqvist was posting 1-0 SO wins (2-0 with EN). That's why we lost. Of course if we had an insanely talented offensive team it would have been a different story. But that's like saying if the caps had the best D in the league, they would win every cup. Our strenght is supposed to be goaltending according to you guys. It certainly didn't show in the 17 playoffs.
In 2018, the team has been competing exactly the same with our backups as with Price :
| pts | max pts | Pts % |
Without Price | 16 | 38 | 42,11 |
With Price | 35 | 82 | 42,68 |
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