Eric Sachs
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- Jan 31, 2007
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he happened to have good strech in the end of season(about 8-9 consecutive games) against the non-playoff teams who had their hope lost of making the playoffs and piled up his stats.
Best part of this is Schneider didn't play well. No. He just "happened to have a good stretch". Can't even give the guy an ounce of respect for anything.. he just lucked into it.
8-9 consecutive games at the end of the season? okay.. let's see.
in reverse order
Senators
Flames
Hurricanes
Capitals
Sabres
Panthers
Islanders
Maple Leafs
So that's 8 games there. Two against teams that were competing for a playoff spot at the time (Leafs + Capitals) but we'll ignore that as you did earlier because it doesn't fit the narrative. So let's take these 8 games away and see what his sv% looks like.
1107 shots, 1019 saves
In those games, he had 189 shots and 180 saves.
So excluding those games (which makes no sense to do but let's go for it!): 918 shots, 839 saves
For a sv% of... .914.
So we take away one of his best 8 game runs of the season, and he still manages to post a better save percentage than his compatriot... who got to keep his best 8 game stretch.
Now to make this an actual comparison that's useful in a discussion about his skills.. we would need to go about and take away the best 8 game stretches of every other goaltender in the league.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if you take away the best 8 game stretches of a goaltender, his stats will go down. It's a crazy assumption, I know.. but I just feel that if you take away the goalie's best games, his stats won't look as good.
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