Hutchinson has a .880 save rate. We have allowed an average 31 shots against per game with Keefe
So he will let in 3 or 4 goals.
We need to score 4+ goals and we'll be good.
Winning both would be huge. Crushing their spirit while doing so would be a huge plus.
Like I posted in another thread, here are team defence numbers and NHL rank over the time since Keefe took over:
5v5 Defence/60 (lower being better of course):
CA: 46.64 (3rd in the NHL)
SA: 25.77 (6th in the NHL)
SCA: 19.85 (1st in the NHL)
HDCA: 6.81 (2nd in the NHL)
xGA: 1.84 (5th in the NHL)
GA: 1.04 (1st in the NHL)
6th fewest shots against, 2nd fewest high danger chances against and the fewest overall scoring chances given up in the league under Keefe? I'd say Hutch is feeling better about his next start. Guessing he gives up 2, maybe 3 if Buffalo gets more than 2 PKs?
The way I see it, chances are better for a sweep if Andy plays in Buffalo and Hutch plays at home.
Secret to Keefe's success: Study everything Babcock did. Do the opposite
One of the very few things that I can say negatively about how Dubas Handled business is the dark cloud hanging over this teams head regarding back up goaltendingExactly this. I mean I don't think Hutch is a good or above average goalie by any means but if the team plays the way they did in the last 3 games, he should have an extremely good chance of winning and a much better game overall.
Good teams can win with bad/ mediocre backup goaltending. Good goaltenders can't win with bad team defense.
It's the longest standing mistake that teams still make in looking at a goaltenders raw SV% and judging them based on that as if it would be the same in all situations.
A reminder that Spezza is outscoring JvR
Yes. Points per game %.Spezza has 9 pts in 16 GP. JVR has 10 pts in 25 GP.
Ah, I figured that's what was meant by that, not actual points. Either way, Spezza has been producing for a guy getting limited ice time on the league minimum.Yes. Points per game %.
I'm kinda bout that keefe philosofy on this (worst goalie plays the easier game first) because its a tough job getting in in those tired back to back scenarios where the team is treally tired and beat up. Keefe knows bout these thangs. Babby was treal stubborn. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong, but he was a man.
But yeah we already won this game. It's already over. Hutchinson and keefe bout to play their best game and the Sabres are treally beat up also and not playing good ice hockey. Not by any means. Miller, Colin is bout to be send to siberia or khl. Period. He that worst. So we already won this, the result will be something like 2-5 or 3-5, but we bout to score some beaut ice hockey goals like a bout that there. We bout it bout it some suckas would say. It's already over. The saturday one will be a tougher nut to crack.
Sorry, but I gotta disagree, the boys usually don't play as well offensively or defensively the second game so if you need your goalie to steal one for you, Freddy can do that much better than Hutch. Even when we had a 4-1 lead over the Habs in the 3rd period, Hutch couldn't even finish that game with a win.
Yes that has been true so far but the Sabres are also playing B2B and they have been slumping. We also do not have much luck in Buffalo. If Sabres are going to get a split, better chance they win at home than on the road IMO.
Like, you already know sire. Thangs and times have changed and these suckas is soft nowadays. Remember when in the old days and dirt mayne, even some 5 years ago mayne, these fools was playing like that 68 game still, cause they WANTED TO mayne. Like they didn't wanna miss anythang, they wanted that 71 and be the team all the time brah. Like they was the leader of that club. Like luongo and dirt, and I didn't even like luongo (mayne that captain dirt with the vanucks was LAUGHABLE), but mayne they wanted to play yeah. Brodeur and dirt. Roy. Mayne, they tough monkeys mayne. The best goalies is the ones who never wanna miss a thang. Like for them, its an automatic they play if they healthy and only in the back to back sometimes a sucka can come in with no strap on and play like the hutch is now tomorrow gon play. But yeah mayne... you already know that. Wish we'd see sometime a sucka again who only plays. Like them roys haseks belfours brodeurs and dirt. They was winners FOR REAL MAYNE. FOR REAL.I remember when guys like Brodeur and Kiprusoff were money to play 70 games every year and there was never any question about how they'd play in the playoffs.
We need these points, and Andersen can handle playing a b2b.