I have no medical proficiency and am basically a hypochondriac so I don't know much, but I'd assume that if he's able to have a surgery to alleviate the emergency and half the offseason to recover, I trust that type of recovery process more than that of a brain injury.I dont want to speculate, but unless he pulls a Crosby we aren't seeing him for a while.
I would slide Kamenev into Johansen role at ES.
Should we do what the Penguins did w/ their goalie which gave them success and give Peks a rest and have Saros play the next game instead. Peks seems to have been shaky and letting in some bad goals lately or do we just ride him for the rest of the series and hope for the best. Peks needs to play better if we want to get a win.
holy Christ Im sorry if I sound flabbergasted but I keep reading things like this and just can't believe my eyes.... Pittsburgh has the luxury of subbing a Cup winning goalie for... another Cup winning goalie.. Jusse Saros didn't even look that frigging good as the season wore on, and he hasn't played in 6 weeks, and he has NEVER played in the playoffs, and you want to put him in net NOW????
Sorry folks, we live or die with Pekka Rinne. Anything else at this juncture is madness.
Speaking of Pittsburgh... Didn't the Preds beat them earlier this year with what was basically an AHL squad? If we could win that game, we can win game 5.
Was just seeing what you guys thought. Didn't know if a rested Saros would be better than a worn out Peks. Got to hope he has his best game tomorrow.
Rested is having not played in a week.
Not playing in 6 weeks = Rusty.
I understand the frustration with the manner of the goals given up... but he still only gave up TWO in regulation... a team that only gives up 2 goals should win >50% of the time.
That said, a two goal performance tomorrow might not be good enough... but I would still say a one goal or less performance is far more likely to come from Rinne than Saros.
I understand the frustration with the manner of the goals given up... but he still only gave up TWO in regulation... a team that only gives up 2 goals should win >50% of the time.
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I dont want to speculate, but unless he pulls a Crosby we aren't seeing him for a while.
I would slide Kamenev into Johansen role at ES.
Well if by awhile you mean next October, then yes that is correct...
EXACTLY
The fact that people are actually dogging Rinne on here is completely mind-blowing.
Yes, he has given up a couple of shaky goals in this series- no argument there. But he still has by far the best numbers of any goalie in the entire playoffs.
And while the 2 he gave up last night were not great goals by any stretch, did any of you guys who are dogging him pay attention to the numerous unbelievable saves he made to keep the game at 2-0?? Which gave us the ability to tie the game???? His save percentage last night was only .945, for crying out loud.
All I can say is I am glad some of you guys on here aren't our Coach or GM. We would never have even made the playoffs...
I think he was referring to Fisher there since the speculation is he might have a concussion.
Nobody is dogging Rinne just seeing if having another player for one game would help give Rinne some rest and better help us down the stretch in this series. Even in the regular season, Rinne needed breaks and playing Saros more helped Rinne to get the needed rest and play his best hockey and be sharp down the stretch. Can't be easy playing as much as Rinne has played in this playoff and fatigue not to set in. Sometimes adding fresher players helps a team and gives the other players time to rest to play sharper and better when they are back in the lineup.
Calling him shaky and "worn out" when he has been the best goaltender in the entire playoffs sounds like dogging to me.
And why exactly is he "worn out"? He should not be any more worn out than any other playoff goaltender. Even with the two goals allowed, he was very good last night, and again, without several unbelievable saves when the game was 2-0, that game would have been blowout regulation win for Anaheim.
I want to ice a line of Cody Bass, McLeod with Watson at center.
If we can't win, let's just beat the **** out of them and make sure they can't win it all.