schneider hasn’t played in a month and we still suck lol. who gives a ****
Ever since Schneider has been injured or on the IR, Hall has been injured since like the week after and I don't even remember when Johansson (who was very hot when he was last in) last played. It's gotta be almost as long as Cory.
Besides, the week before Cory last played, I actually predicted we would only win about 5 games between then and the bye week/all star break. We've actually won 6 since then, with Hall missing most of the games and we still have over a week and like 4 more games to go before the break. So we'e already won more than I thought we would.
Without sounding like that dude that thinks Cory is worse for the team than Chiarelli, Cory would have meant less wins for this team since then. There's no doubt in my mind that Cory costs you wins with how he's played this year, which has been less than serviceable.
I know some still think he's bouncing back and it's okay to have faith and hope, you have to believe in something. I mean, shit man, I thought for sure the young woman I was seeing back in May-July was gonna contact me eventually a month after everything happened, but she never did. I held out on a lot of hope with that one.
The odds of Cory ever being good again are very much against him. Maybe not the odds of him being serviceable again or him winning a game or allowing one goal with a shutout or two in a string of starts ever again, but the odds of him being even an average starter again are very low. I think it's possible, assuming he's not too shot physically and physically beyond unrepair, that he could have one more good season in him, especially if he doesn't play that much. Think Jimmy Howard back in 16-17 when he only played 24 or 26 games. Howard was having a good first 25 game this year, but looks to regressing to what he now is.
But even if that happens for Cory, I fully expect him to return to this broken down declining version the very next year. I don't see him as any better than 2014 Marty. In fact, he might be worse than that at this juncture. It's not like he's 27 either. Cory's last 100 games are probably like if Taylor Hall only scored 50-60 points in his last 180-200 games. 100 games for a goalie is a lot. It's a lot more than 100 games for a skater, considering that most skaters when healthy, will play 82 games or close to it. Most goalies don't even hit 65 games in a season anymore.