Alexei Yashvalev
Registered User
Goalies are lottery tickets. Their performances from year to year are highly inconsistent, even among the elite ones.
Just the nature of the way the position is played now.
Personal theory: It's not humanly possible to get by on reflexes anymore with how player stick technology has evolved, gotta play the percentages read the play and hope the puck hits you. Sometimes even when the percentages are in your favour you get unlucky and even though the goalie is doing the right thing percentage/technique wise they get scored on. Then they get down on themselves mentally because the right thing didn't work and get into a funk where they don't do the right thing and make it worse on themselves.