It was long before 2017 although the "timely saves" narrative was awful. The Pavelec propaganda was insane in the first few seasons of Jets 2.0. When the Jets 2.0 returned I was drinking the media kool-aid for a while, I remember to this day the exact moment when I tuned out the 1290 as a source of Jets analysis- it was in the lockout shortened season of 2013. Me and some buddies were done with our classes at university and went into checkout a movie at the St Vital mall, waiting for the bus I and put on 1290 on my phone as it was a gameday. It had been 5 minutes of listening to that, the Jets had been having a bad season and someone on 1290 (I believe it was Adam Wozny) said that
"Pavelec is the MVP of the season" and everyone agreed. Pavelec who was like .903-.904 goalie at that time was being sold as the Jets MVP.
The Pavelec saga was so bizarre, you would have thought that the media were being paid to be his hype-men.