goalie stats are stupid. You can only compare goalie stats if both goalies are playing on the same team and against the same opponents and even then you got to have a much bigger sample size of games. With this sample size he could possibly have still been playing at a vezina level in those games and still have those stats
It's sort of both. He's making Vezina level saves, bailing us out of horrific mistakes, but then, later, he'll make a mistake himself and give up a goal.
It almost always comes down to rebound/puck control. Or maybe just "save control." He kicked one directly to a Penguin last game. The game before (or maybe the Florida game), he took one off the crest and then lost sight on it on the ice in front of him, and an opponent jammed it past him (<-- He's working on this type of thing; it used to be a way bigger issue.).
He makes 10-bell saves better than Bishop, but that's because he's still relying so much on his crazy reflexes I think, whereas Bishop rarely had to make those because of his positioning, and his weird ability to be a general from the crease.
I think we're seeing improvements though. But IMO the control issue is still making his ridiculous acrobatic saves a bit of a wash. Those ridiculous saves turn you into a Vezina caliber goalie only if you're making all the easy saves too. Vasy does that, for the most part, but sometimes he still leaves pucks in very dangerous areas.
So I think the GAA/S% are a product of bad puck luck (some deflections) mixed with some bad plays, but he saves our bacon so much that it kind of balances out.
We knew there'd be growing pains.