what would NBC game be without edzo noting red wings subtle interference's and picks lol?
To me part of the reason for that is Monster is better at playing the puck than Howard. When you have a good puck handling goalie it leads to better/easier breakouts and less time hemmed in your own zone. I can't even begin to count how many times Howard has made a bad read when playing the puck which lead to a great scoring chance for the other team.
i think there is interesting point but wings don't have a lot more shots/shot attempts with gustavsson or mrazek being the goalie compared to howard. or shots against.
they just score a lot more. way too much more imo, that it could be explained with that.
esp. as he's always been bad at handling the puck. and it's just showing up now, there wasn't problem like this before. why is it showing up just now?
and i looked quickly at good puck moving goalies and differences in shots and goals between their backups. didn't seem to be any correlation. more like the other way around. when backups were playing, their team had more shots and goals.. likely result of playing against weaker team.
dead serious
Sure it's easy to say Lundquist doesn't make that save but in reality we don't really know that. You act like Lundquist has never stopped a deflected shot before. Truthfully Lundquist probably would have stopped it because he would have seen the shot from the point and played it aggressively by coming out further to cut the angle on any deflection. Howie was just sitting back deep in his crease waiting for the puck to come to him instead of playing the situation proactively.
Even keeping it at 2-0 would have still given us a chance. That 3rd goal took all the life out of the team...at least whatever life was left...what's the excuse for the 3rd goal?
No team is ever going to play a perfect game. There will be turnovers and defensive breakdowns...it's the goalies job to bail his fellow teammates out. Howard doesn't do that....ever
lundqvist is very, very passive goalie in that sense. he rarely comes far out of the net.
i do agree that howie hasn't been really good this year. i guess it's regression to mean. he had like top 3 5on5 sv% the previous two season. he's a good goalie but not a great goalie.
though teams seem to do it more and more now, i wonder if it would be just better to draft a little more goalies, and sign cheap(er) alternatives at UFA. like wings could have 4 mil or more in cap space for better player this year if they had done that. and there also seem to be quite a lot of goalies cheap who work damn well... and seeing all goalies being almost consistently good for good teams.. no matter who there is in net, i think the team effects might be quite big. and goalies are weird. widely fluctuating sv% from year to year. one year this goalies is close to being vezina candidate, few years or even year later fans want him to be send to the moon.
i'd pay for elite goalies, for sure. and howie has fair cap hit considering other teams, but i just wonder how stuff like this would work out.
I actually had them added up just before the Olympics, but the scratch pad I wrote it all out on is at work. Needless to say, we were very bad. I think 28th in goals by D men and like 24th in pts by D men.
EDIT - Scratch that, I actually have the worksheet here... I was right, we were 28th in goals for by D-Men with 16 (Montreal had 15 and the Isles had 14) and were 24th in pts per player by a D-Man with 8.8. The only teams worse were Buffalo (6.2), Dallas (7.9), Edmonton (5.5), Florida (7.6), Isles (8.3), and the Rangers (8.4).
But don't forget, these were stats from like 4 weeks ago. I might do another go at it now to see if we've improved at all.
i had wondered about that. i did those on goals a while back but didn't bother to do with points. i think that gives confirmation that wings need good puck mover on D. badly.