Lil Sebastian Cossa
Opinions are share are my own personal opinions.
- Jul 6, 2012
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Bernier has a crazy hot streak and all of a sudden he’s a good starter? People have short memories. Bernier has been trash for two years. Before this hot streak he was terrible. Why do we need to keep him? If you look at the underlying numbers, our defense has actually been decent at suppressing high danger shots against. Our goaltending was the worst in the league at high danger save percentage. Outside of one month of hockey, Bernier and Howard have been THE problem. Not the solution.
We are in a rebuild and should sacrifice everyone outside of a planned core that has any value whatsoever, acquiring whatever young asset possible, be it prospect or pick.
We need to keep some, ANY sense of stability.
And **** no, they've been part of the problem. It's far more troubling to distill everything down to "goalie gives up goals, goalie is problem", "goalie stands on head, goalie not problem".
Bernier has been solid all year. His numbers have looked better because they've suppressed HD stuff better. But even when his HD% was really bad... those shots are the ones most likely to go in. If he had appalling low danger chances going in (see Mrazek in his last year or Howard for most of the start of this year), he's a big issue.
People need to get this "we're in a rebuild, we need any asset, any at all, to get something". Because all shipping out anything that isn't nailed down does is unbolting your tub from the floor flipping the thing upside and praying to god that you win the lottery and your baby isn't maimed by the crashing tub. People look at the 76ers and Astros and take the wrong message. You will certainly have extraneous assets when you're in a decline towards a rebuild. But look at Edmonton in the early 2010s. They had some of the best core pieces you could hope for. Hall is an MVP, Eberle was a legit top 6 guy, RNH is a legit top 6C, McDavid is the best player in the league, and Draisaitl has worked out in a big way too. And yet, they've won a single playoff series from 2005-2006 to now. And they are perilously close to missing the playoffs again. They started tonight prior to the games, they're in. If they lose and the teams behind them win, they're out. Edmonton, after about a decade of gathering talent that were all pretty successful picks outside of Nail Yakupov, is STILL a bubble team and no more a contender than any other roster in hockey.
Show me you've got any kind of plan in net if you move Bernier and I'll of course think about trading him. But if the play is "Patrik Rybar + Calvin Pickard come on down because we suck and will suck anyway, **** off.