5eimer discussion thread

[FinlandPanther]

Just discuss anything in here on James the 5th so we can keep it into one small topic.

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[GermanPanther]

The second on Top of my to Draft/Buyout list.
His rebound controll really bad and he is not what we needing. He is a Back Up overpayed, must play Starter cant do it.
Current we have a bad Year of him, since he get a lot of Goals against him up high. It has nothing to do with the equipment Adjustment.

 

[Asheville]

No possible scenario sees him on the Florida Panthers '19-'20 opening night roster.

 

[Ratsreign]

He inspires zero confidence. Even if he's playing well during a game, you still find yourself holding your breath when the other team gets any shot away. Breakaways are pretty much guaranteed to be in the net unless the shooter misses it. When the puck his around the crease, he seems to be in panic mode even when he is making saves. The face down cross crease push is unlike any I recall seeing. He routinely seems to make himself "smaller" in goal. Idk if he's trying to ensure that nothing leaks under his arm, but the way he faces a shot he almost looks like a turtle withdrawing into his shell.

 

[vendetta]

Minimum 6 points cost by goaltending and prob more likely closer to 10. Nuff said.

 

[Asheville]

Minimum 6 points cost by goaltending and prob more likely closer to 10. Nuff said.

7-0-1

When allowing less than 3 goals.

8-3-1

When allowing less than 4 goals.

In other words, Florida is a Cup contender with average to good goaltending.

 

[PSLguy]

Panthers winning 4-1 in the 2nd. I lean over to my wife after a Reimer save, barely, and say; isn't this supposed to be enjoyable?

Always expecting the shots to get past Reimer and sitting on the edge of my seat knowing that a 4-1 lead just isn't enough.

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

Reimer is just flat out bad right now. We're getting the ice cold streaks without any hot ones to balance it out.

Rather than just complain about the guy, I like to entertain some solutions for winning with him. I was thinking about this a lot, and I believe the solution is for our defense to just ice the hell out of the puck. Just fling that thing down the ice if you can't immediately see a clean move to leave the zone with it.

The longer the play goes on in the defensive zone, the more flustered and out of position Reimer gets. It becomes total chaos at the net because he's doing belly flops or drifting horribly out of position. So why not just throw it down the ice? Eventually you are going to win a faceoff.

Can't score goals if you're busy chasing the puck down the ice for the touch.

 

[cowboy82nd]

Any thing in front of the crease and he drops down and falls face first. I heard Hextall is looking for a job.

 

[ShootIt]

Reminds me of Alex Auld.

3.35 GAA 88.8% Save Percentage
3.36 GAA 89.3% Save Percentage.

Yup, same quality goaltending

 

[PBPantherfan]

He inspires zero confidence. Even if he's playing well during a game, you still find yourself holding your breath when the other team gets any shot away. Breakaways are pretty much guaranteed to be in the net unless the shooter misses it. When the puck his around the crease, he seems to be in panic mode even when he is making saves. The face down cross crease push is unlike any I recall seeing. He routinely seems to make himself "smaller" in goal. Idk if he's trying to ensure that nothing leaks under his arm, but the way he faces a shot he almost looks like a turtle withdrawing into his shell.

Been trying to figure out what he reminds me of with his arms flung up and head pulled down routine. Thanks that’s exactly it.

 

[PBPantherfan]

 

[Ratsreign]

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This is perfect. Can't stop Lmao

 

[EnforceTheLaus]

Looking at him more intensely the last few games, he lacks core strength. He is either slow to push off or needs to kick off again halfway though a cross crease slide. Beyond that his form is terrible, he doesn’t post up on corner with large holes, his butterfly looks like a beer league goalie with plenty of holes for shooters. He won’t get better without a long break to retool.

How to get rid of him is the biggest problem, either trade at 50% or buyout.

 

[letsgrowcactus]

Looking at him more intensely the last few games, he lacks core strength. He is either slow to push off or needs to kick off again halfway though a cross crease slide. Beyond that his form is terrible, he doesn’t post up on corner with large holes, his butterfly looks like a beer league goalie with plenty of holes for shooters. He won’t get better without a long break to retool.

How to get rid of him is the biggest problem, either trade at 50% or buyout.

Trading at 50% would honestly be the best scenario - but how do you con someone into thinking he's worth 1.7 mil without sending some valuable assets with him...
Maybe someone looks at his numbers prior to this year and figures this was just one bad year and he'll return to form? A fan can dream...

 

[KW]

Looking at him more intensely the last few games, he lacks core strength. He is either slow to push off or needs to kick off again halfway though a cross crease slide. Beyond that his form is terrible, he doesn’t post up on corner with large holes, his butterfly looks like a beer league goalie with plenty of holes for shooters. He won’t get better without a long break to retool.

How to get rid of him is the biggest problem, either trade at 50% or buyout.

I don’t think it’s quite that bad, my observations (also having tried to look more carefully, but I’m not a goalie, I’ve always played a forward position) are that his two biggest issues are 1) lateral movement (so I agree on the core strength and quickness) and 2) lack of situation dependent positioning.

Tampa really exposed him on their first 3 goals on the lateral movement part, and to some extent on the OT goal. But Kucherov also exposed him on the PP goal regarding positioning. Reimer was way too deep in the net. Had he played at the edge of the crease, he might well have blocked the shot. Did he get told about being too aggressive after the Anaheim tip-in goal? If he did, that would suck.

I do agree that his 5-hole is vulnerable though. He’s once again not quick and consistent enough with the butterfly.

I think he IS a pretty good scrambler though. He basically had saved us from Tampa’s 4th goal had it not been for Hunt’s first goal of the season. That wasn’t on Reimer.

I don’t hold out much hope that he’ll become solid, but it all depends on if he can quickly become quick again. It looks like his season preparation was not done right and he’s slowly catching up with the season and costing us some games.

 

[RainingRats]

He has no confidence.

But the major flaw in his play is moving laterally. We all started to notice it early on and it became an issue In the first CBJ game this season, when they scored on the PP and he couldn’t get across in time.

Not only is he slow to move across the crease but he gets smaller as he moves. Most of the goals last night required him to move laterally.

That’s got to be the playbook on him too. If you get a cross ice pass, immediately shoot bc he’s busy withdrawing into himself and slowly moving post to post.

 

[5 Hole]

Garbage. He's been so bad this year it's not even funny. Guaranteed 5 goals against.

 

[PBPantherfan]

Trading at 50% would honestly be the best scenario - but how do you con someone into thinking he's worth 1.7 mil without sending some valuable assets with him...
Maybe someone looks at his numbers prior to this year and figures this was just one bad year and he'll return to form? A fan can dream...

Fire Tallas blame it on him and hope somebody with a good goalie coach bites?

 

[TheImpatientPanther]

Fire Tallas blame it on him and hope somebody with a good goalie coach bites?

Luongo would be a perfect goalie coach for Monty and/or Bednard.

 

[Drugs Delaney]

I was hoping to read that Reimer was waived today. One can dream.

 

[Mogo]

Reimer is not having bad luck his whole play-style right now is not something a goalie should do

 

[CHGoalie27]

Luongo would be a perfect goalie coach for Monty and/or Bednard.

I've been sayin yo!!! And it is "and". I like em both.

 

[EnforceTheLaus]

Luongo would be a perfect goalie coach for Monty and/or Bednard.

Luongo is already a coach for Monty

 

[Dread Clawz]

In all fairness to reimer, he had no chance on the game tying goal. It was kicked in by hunt and immediately changed direction, no goalie would have stopped that but for blind luck.