At the end of the season if he still has really strong stats and can make an impact in the playoffs it's a totally different story.
Agreed, knighting or decrying Bishop at this point is fallacy. He does look very good though.
However a lot of people start strong until the opposition finds their weaknesses and exploits them enough to limit that player's hot start to what it was.
The advantage Bishop has is that he is technically sound and understands enough of his size to play the angles very well. Bishop always did have at least somewhat of an understanding, his issue was that he had difficulty controlling pucks when he made kick-saves. The real issue was difficulty in adapting a traditional butterfly goalie style for a player whose size makes him non-traditional.
I had stated for many years (before I joined this board due to some complications with a previous one) that Bishop would be a very good goaltender if someone could figure out how to adapt the traditional style to his natural advantages. Watching him that last year he was here you could see things beginning to click and he was subtly adjusting his style. This has been given another step forward in Ottawa and Tampa as he finds more and more what works and what does not.
This was why, while I appreciated what Brian Elliott did for the Blues and admit I was wrong for saying so, I thought the Blues made a tremendous mistake going with Elliott over Bishop. Elliott was and always was going to be (and perhaps still is...) a reactionary goalie. More often than a technically proficient goalie, he is going to have days when nothing can get by him and days when the Hanson brothers could score a hat-trick each in the first period.
Bishop strikes me as a goaltender that is going to be near or in the top half of starters for some time. Maybe not starting this year, but in the next couple.