Nobody is asking that of him though. We just want him to stop costing us games and points, I don't think that's too much to ask.
We could have easily left Florida with 3 or 4 points with competent goaltending, instead we leave with zero.
Look at his sv% in his losses lately:
5-6 fla .824
4-5 tbl .833
3-4 edm .846
0-2 det .900
2-3 Bos .912
4-6 njd .853
1-8 bos .545
5-6 nyr .824
2-5 cbj .808
In 7 of his last 9 losses, he's put up less than a .855%.
That means for every 30 shots he sees he's letting in around 4.5 goals. Compared to even league average (.910; 3.7ga per 30.)
I see a few games on that list where he was so bad he cost us points.
No one is asking him to drag a bottom 5 team into a playoff position because we're not a bottom 5 team. We're a playoff bubble team - and it would be nice if our franchise goalie merely helped keep us in the hunt, rather than turn a playoff bubble team into a bottom 10 team because of consistent bad goaltending performances that cost the team crucial points.
If you evaluate a goalie purely on stats, and basic one like that…and without context on top of it….then we have a long long way to go in evaluating goalies.
Rask is .882 in his losses.
Holtby is .861 in his losses.
Fleury is .860 in his losses.
That's how hockey works, you know.
No goalie have good stats in losses and got nothing to do with league average.
You want Price to have less lost? Then it's a long shot from being about him.
He cost us point cause for you, a bad goal cost us games. Newsflash, goalie let in bad goals all the time, almost every games and that's all of them.
Just look at the goals we score, so many goals you would consider a bad goal from Price, we scored them about every game and more than once per game.
Most teams can overcome those goals….we can't cause we're not a good team, if we were a good team, those goals wouldn't matter that much.
You blame Price for how many points this season?
Let's just say that 8 points would put this team at the top 5 of the NHL and the Habs are not even close to be playing that well this season to be there.
Do we consider some points that our back-up lost for this team in there also?
Doesn't leave that many points for Price…….
And i can show you 8 points that Price stole for this team this season being either the 1st or 2nd star of the game (those no one likes to talk about them), so all in all, we are not a underperforming team because of our goaltending. You just want Price to save this sorry ass team from themselves.
We are a low-end bubble team.
We have one the 3 worst defensive squad in the NHL.
We are by far the smallest forward group in the NHL
We don't have one player in the top 25 of the NHL in goals, assists or points.